The lines with assonance are:
- The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
- Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods.
Assonance is one of the most common rhetorical devices, used most frequently in poetry. It is the repetition of vowels in adjacent words or phrases, emphasizing the melody of the language. The vowels don't have to be identical.
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I believe the best answer to your question would be option four, determination.
For those who have the same question, but have different answer options, another correct to this question would be resolve.
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The best answer from the given choices is explorer.
