This would be D, alliteration. This is because the sentences repeat the same sound in similar words that mean similar things.
Answer:
It began its development with the velocipedes or bone-shakers of the nineteenth century, so it has a 200-year pedigree.
Yet even then riding was still unaffordable for the great majority of people, and it would take many years before bikes became cheap enough for all.
Explanation:
Compound sentences are sentences that consist of two or more independent clauses connected by a comma and conjunction or by a semicolon. There are only seven coordinating conjunctions:<em> for, and, nor, but, or, yet, </em>and <em>so.</em>
An independent clause is a clause that can stand alone as a sentence. Every sentence must contain a subject and predicate and express a complete thought. Unlike independent clauses, dependent (subordinate) clauses don't fulfill these criteria, which is why they can't stand alone as sentences.
This means that you need to choose sentences that consist of more than one independent clause and no subordinate clauses. These sentences are:
- <u>It began its development with the velocipedes or bone-shakers of the nineteenth century</u>, so <u>it has a 200-year pedigree</u>.
- <u>Yet even then riding was still unaffordable for the great majority of people</u>, and <u>it would take many years before bikes became cheap enough for all.</u>
The underlined parts are independent clauses that make up these sentences.
It is a simple sentence.
A simple sentence contains one independent clause - which is the case with sentence 7. There is one subject (they) and one verb (rule), which means that it is a simple sentence (because of one verb only). A dependent clause wouldn't be able to stand on its own, and sentence 7 obviously can, which is why it is not dependent.
