1. prestige
2. superiority
3. benign
4. divert
5. retroactive
6. affectionate
7. indolence
8. unanimous
9. profound
10. spontaneously
11. numbly
12. flattered
13. resemblance
14. avert
15. grimace
The answer is C.during the civil war
The <span>sound device used in the following excerpt from "How the Animals Lost their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" by Carl Sandburg is <u>repetition.
</u>You can see that the fragment <em>which family was </em>is repeated a several times throughout the excerpt, which is why repetition is the correct answer.<u>
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