This is a hard one and I can see why you decided to post it here. B is most definitely wrong but the other three are all neck and neck. There are both even pros and cons of A and C but I think it would be more reasonable to adopt a general routine. So I think the answer would be C.
Sentence A's use of a semicolon is meant to show a connection between two different ideas. Sentence B's use of the colon is used to precede a list or explanation.
In Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" the reader is introduced to the Pardoner in "the Pardoner's Tale". What is ironic about the Pardoner is that he would often preach that money was the root of all evil, but then he would sell pardons (official documents that pardoned sins).
<span>No choices were given so I had to read the whole poem. Here is the line that uses alliteration.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Alliteration is literary stylistic device wherein a series of words in a row have the same first consonant sounds.
The sound of "M" was used to depict alliteration.</span>
