<span>2. broils: quarrels, battles.
Alliteration is the repetition of the consonant sound at the beginning of more than one word within a line or section of a poem or a piece. In this line, the 'b'sound is repeated two times: "Broils: quarrels, Battles". This sound device helps create rhythm and mood. </span>
I think the line 'Since he was old enough to know, big boy' is the best line in the excerpt that uses metonymy. This is because the phrase 'he was old enough' is just an expanded meaning of the phrase 'big boy' - which is what metonymy is all about.
The Earth's crust is its lightest, most buoyant rock layer.
The Earth’s mantle is the mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior.
The asthenosphere is the highly viscous, mechanically weak, and ductile region of the upper mantle of Earth.
The outer core is the third layer of the Earth.
Earth's inner core is the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth.
