Select the correct answer. what sound device is 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? when there was a fight and a snag and a wrangle between two families living next door neighbors to each other and this old flongboo was called in to umpire and to say which family was right and which family was wrong, which family started it and which family ought to stop it, he used to say, “the best umpire is the one who knows just how far to go and how far not to go.” a. repetition b. alliteration c. rhyme d. consonance

The answer is D consonance

A. Repetition

Explanation: The word family is intentionally repeated in each instance where it could have been omitted. This sound device adds to the sense of "annoying, noisy, lengthy argument" that was already started with the pseudo-repetition "a fight and a snag and a wrangle" (i.e., three words to refer to the same thing).

For PLATO users the correct answer is A

Repetition

the answer is A repetition because the author repeats many words in the story

The anwser is repition.

The correct answer is A. Repetition

Explanation:

In writing, there are different sound techniques or devices that can be used by the writer to emphasize a certain idea or provide the text an aesthetic sense this includes alliteration in which the initial sound of words is repeated; rhyme in which the last same sound at the end of words or verses is repeated; consonance in which sounds from consonants is repeated and repetition in which one or more complete words or phrases are repeated. In the case of the excerpt presented, a sound device is used as words such as "family" and "which" are repeated multiple time, this also implies the specific sound device used is repetition as the recurrence of sounds occurs in complete words rather than on syllables at then of the beginning of words.

The other answer is wrong, just took the test. It's not consonance

Explanation:

Consonance

The words snag and wrangle have the same sounds in them. 

Alliteration would be first fairly frequent letters lighting limply on the page.

Rhyme is just like time because we all like lime.

Repetition is going, going, going every step of the way. 

D. Consonance

Explanation:

Here are the words and parts:
Consonance. This is so because of some words like snag and wrangle have the same sounds in them. 
Another Consonances are:
Alliteration would be first fairly frequent letters lighting limply on the page.
Rhyme is just like time because we all like lime.
Repetition is going, going, going every step of the way.  
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