Question

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

Answer 1

what is underlined?

Answer 2

Does it dry
syrupy sweet?

Answer 3

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