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OpenStudy (anonymous):

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore? And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over? like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Which literary device is used in the underlined words? A. rhyme B. alliteration C. assonance D. consonance

OpenStudy (destinymasha):

what is underlined?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Does it dry syrupy sweet?

OpenStudy (destinymasha):

Syrupy sweet = alliteration [ the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.]

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