Which type of figurative language is used in this excerpt from “the siege of belgrade" by alaric alexander watts. an austrian array, awfully arrayed, boldly by battery, besieged belgrade. cossack commanders, cannonading come, dealing destruction’s devastating doom; alliteration metaphor personification simile

The answer to your question is the first choice, alliteration.

The repitition from the words that begin with the letter "a" (An, Austrian, array, awfully, arrayed, and boldly) use alliteration as well as repeating the words that begin with the letter "b" (boldly, by, battery, and besieged Belgrade), and the same thing with the letters "c" and "d."

alliteraton

Explanation:

because each of the words start with the same letter or sound

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

b b b b b b   b b b   b b b b b