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Read the following excerpt from Wilfred Owen's “Arms and the Boy and answer the question.

Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash ...
Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in this excerpt?
alliteration
O assonance
O consonance
O anaphora

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Answer:

Consonance

Step-by-step explanation:

Consonance is a literary device in which identical or similar consonants are repeated in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different. In the given excerpt, the consonant L is repeated several times:

  • Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash...

The opposite of consonance is assonance - the repetition of vowel sounds.

Alliteration is a literary device in which a series of words begins with the same sound (not the same letter!).

Anaphora is a literary device in which the same word (or a group of words) is repeated at the beginning of neighboring clauses.

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