Answer: I would contend that the right answer is the D) It makes the poem easy to memorize.
Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that since many epic poems were meant to be retold orally, their authors incorporated into them poetic devices such as alliteration, which facilitated that endeavor—this was true particularly of Old English and Old German poetry, among others, as exemplified by the poem <em>Beowulf. </em>Alliteration (from the Latin <em>littĕra</em>, "letter") is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem. The alliterative verse replaces other devices that form the poem's metrical structure, such as the rhyme.
