B) the description of Coketown is a digression from the main subject
<span>The Latin root "spec" or "spect" comes from specto, spectare - a 1st conjugation verb meaning to observe or watch. "Spectare" ("to observe") is the infinitive form of the verb.</span>
Current is the adjective, it describes books in the sentence.
I think it is assonance because assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
B, Direct Characterization because you know what the character looks like without guessing.