Based on the excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee", Poe used a<span>ssonance to connect the images of death and sea. Assonance refers to a literary device wherein the sound of a vowel is repeated in words that are close to each other. The vowel sound -e- was repeated throughout the excerpt. </span>
The answer is allusion. It is a literary device that employs an indirect reference of something, it could a place, an animal, or a person that is significant to any field - history, culture, philosophy, literature, etc.
