Explanation: alliteration is a literary device that consists in the repetition of the beginning sounds of consecutive words, or words that are close to each other. Similes and metaphors are comparisons (indirect and direct, respectively), and personification is giving human characteristics to non human objects. So from the given options, the one that affects the sound of a poem is the corresponding to option A: alliteration.
The answer is A) Lived a man as big as a barge, this does not describe neither how much the man can eat nor drink, it only describes how big the man is.
The paragraph expands on the central idea that malaria was a deadly disease in Elizabethan England. However, it explains Elizabethan misconceptions about the spread of malaria.
