Assonance is a stylistic literary technique that is found in a text when two or more neighboring words (which may or not be separated by a definite article or other short words) have the same vowel sound. In the line "wh<u>ee</u>lingfr<u>ee</u>ly through the open sky" Both bold words have the same vowel sound "ee".
Some others examples of this techniques are "Th<u>a</u>t c<u>a</u>t is b<u>a</u>d", "Don't f<u>ea</u>r, d<u>ea</u>r" and "n<u>o</u> man kn<u>o</u>ws the truth"
<u>Assonan ce is the rep etition of a vo wel sou nd or diphth ong in non rhy ming stress ed syll ables.</u>
The rest of the choices are wrong because <u>alliteration</u> is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of contiguous words; <u>simile</u> is a straightforward comparison between different things; and <u>oxymoron</u> happens when opposite terms appear in combination.
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