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Read the following passage from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Which sound device is expressed by the bolded letters?Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary …alliterationrefrainrhythmrhyme

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Read the following passage from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Which sound device is expressed by the bolded letters?Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary …alliterationrefrainrhythmrhyme

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The sound device expressed by the bolded letters in the passage from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” is alliteration. This is because alliteration is a literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning sound. In this case, the words "weak" and "weary" both start with the same sound, which is 'w'.

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