Question

What sound device is used in this excerpt from "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat"? There were sixty-six representatives on the committee and they decided to call it the Committee of Sixty-Six. It was a distinguished committee and when they all sat together holding their mouths under their noses and cleaning their ears and scratching themselves under the chin looking thoughtful (just like a distinguished committee) then anybody would say just to look at them, "This must be quite a distinguished committee."

Answer 1

The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "B. alliteration." The sound device is used in this excerpt from "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" is that alliteration.

Here are the following choices:
A. repetition
B. alliteration
C. rhyme
D. consonance

Answer 2

The sound device used in this excerpt from "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat"? is alliteration.

Alliteration is a literary device which is a repetition of the consonants in a row, sound stressing syllable of a phrase.

In the above instance, "There were sixty-six representatives on the committee and they decided to call it the Committee of Sixty-Six" uses the sound device alliteration which emphasizes the bold phrases.