Question

What is the dominant form of sound repetition at work in this line from "The Fish"?

with tiny white sea-lice


Select the best answer from the choices provided.
A.
consonance
B.
assonance
C.
alliteration
D.
rhyme

Answer 1

C. alliteration

Step-by-step explanation:

Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound or letter in the initial letters of the closely written words in a sentence. The consonant letter 'w' has been repeated in the words 'with' and 'white'.

Consonance is the literary device in which the consonant sound is repeated in the closely connected words in a sentence. The consonant sounds are similar or equivalent. Their vowel sound differs.

Assonance is the repetition of the vowel sound in the words written in a sentence.

Rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds in the stressed syllables of the last word in the sentence.