Question

What literary device is present in the lines below?
And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;
Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait

Question 2 options:

Repetition


Rhyme


Assonance


Alliteration


Consonance

Answer 1

Answer:

Assonance and Consonance

Explanation:

Assonance - (normally used in poetry) repetition of a sound or vowel in stressed syllables enough to echo each other.

(the 'o' and 'i' sounds in the first stanza)

Consonance - repetition of consonant sounds, especially when in close proximity

('wanton wind' - w sound) (big-bellied - b sound)

Answer 2

Using special words and phrases to depict the ideas and emphasise the important subject is called literary devices. Assonance and Consonance are present.

What are Assonance and Consonance?

Assonance is the type of literary device that uses the repetition of the vowel sounds in the sentences or the texts. The sounds of the vowels and the consonants have a resemblance.

Consonance is the type of literary device that uses the repetition of consonant sounds in the sentences of the text.  In the sentence the vowel sounds are different but the consonants have a similar sound.

In the first stanza the sounds of "o and i" are examples of assonance. The b and the w sound in the wanton wind and big-bellied are examples of consonance.

Therefore, option c. assonance and option e. consonance are the literary devices in the lines.

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