Question

What letter sound is repeated in these lines from poems and songs?

Pay attention then input the letters in order below!

#1.Bad Blood, Taylor Swift- "And, baby, now we've got bad blood"

#2. Home on the Range, Daniel Kelley and Brewster Higley- "Oh, give me a home where the
buffalo roam

# 3. Birches, Robert Frost- "Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells/
Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust--"

#4. I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King- "Five score year ago, a great American, in whose
symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."

#5. Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss- "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them
Sam I Am.

#6. Beowulf- "He was four times a father, this fighter prince."

What letters are being used in alliteration or assonance above? In order from 1-6,
no spaces and all in lowercase.

Answer 1

The repeated letter sounds used in alliteration or assonance from the given examples are as follows, in order: 'b' from #1, 'b' from #2, 'u' from #3, none from #4, 'l' from #5, and 'f' from #6.

Step-by-step explanation:

To identify the repeated letter sounds in the given lines from poems and songs for purposes of alliteration or assonance, we need to look closely at the initial consonant sounds for alliteration and the vowel sounds within words for assonance. Here is the analysis of each line:

• #1: Alliteration with the 'b' in "baby, bad, blood".
• #2: Alliteration with the 'b' in "buffalo, roam".
• #3: Assonance with the 'u' sound in "sun's, warmth, makes them".
• #4: No prominent alliteration or assonance is present.
• #5: Alliteration with the 'l' in "like, green, eggs and".
• #6: Alliteration with the 'f' in "four, father, fighter".

The letters representing the primary sound devices are, in order: b, b, u, (none), l, f.