The sound device illustrated in the bolded text "beats his bars" is alliteration. This is because the initial "b" sound in "beats" and "bars" is repeated.
Read the excerpt from "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Then, answer the question that follows.
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
Which sound device is illustrated in the bolded text?
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Slant rhyme
(it isnt assonance)
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