Answer: the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words (i.e. <u>s</u>wift <u>s</u>eagulls <u>s</u>leep <u>s</u>oundly)
details or trivia is the best I could come up with. There are really none. Hope this helps!
C: <span>
The nobles had again sought to make themselves as powerful as possible.
In the passage, it explains that under Stephen the nobles had experienced a ton of power (the author uses the word exorbitant which shows how extremely privileged their lives were), but that Henry the Second then took a lot of their power away. Now, they are resuming their former positions (from under Stephen) to a point where they are becoming as powerful as possible.</span>
