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What is the effect of the alliteration in the closing lines of "Ozymandias": "boundless and bare, / the lone and level sands stretch far away"?

A.
It stresses the challenges of life in the desert.

B.
It produces feelings of pity for the death of the king.

C.
It brings the poem back to the sculptor's perspective.

D.
It focuses attention on the vast, empty space in which the statue is decaying.

Answer 1

what do you think?

Answer 2

I have no idea.

Answer 3

Alliteration is derived from Latin’s “Latira”. It means “letters of alphabet”. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.

Answer 4

^

Answer 5

Any guess?

Answer 6

Any ideas?

Answer 7

not really

Answer 8

Then I suggest A.

Answer 9

just checking- are you saying the wrong answer just so I will get it wrong? Just asking because this has happened to me before.

Answer 10

Although I'm not sure, I have never read it. But it seems like it is describing a island.

Answer 11

I think it might be D

Answer 12

Go with your gut. ^_-

Answer 13

ok