Question

Alliteration is defined as ...........................

• A. the repetition of vowel sounds between different words in a sentence
• B. a kind of repetition concerned with the use and reuse of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of multiple words
• C. the use of different consonant sounds within the same line of poetry
• D. the rhyme scheme that appears at the end of the lines in a stanza

Answer 1

Answer:

B. a kind of repetition concerned with the use and reuse of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of multiple words

"When I consider how my light is spent,

Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,"

First two lines of the poem "On His Blindness"

• “world” and “wide” in the second line - Example for Alliteration