Question

This Dust Was Once the Man

This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States

Walt Whitman

What literary device does this poem include at the end of each line?

Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia

Answer 1

Okay, this, I think, should use the process of elimination

Let's go through each of them

Alliteration is "The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words"

do you think that's true?

Answer 2

no

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Onomatopoeia, is "The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. Pearoo, sizzle )"

Do you think this is true?

Answer 5

no

Answer 6

i think its c

Answer 7

Assonance
Consonance

Assonance is "In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence "
Consonance is "Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions."

which one do you think it is

Answer 8

I think that to

Answer 9

yh th

Answer 10

yw~

Answer 11

This Dust Was Once the Man

This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States

Walt Whitman

Who is "the man" the dust now represents?

The narrator
A criminal
Whitman
Lincoln

Answer 12

another question another post

Answer 13

lmo