Scuttled off sideways words are an example of

The sentence fragment, ' scuttled off sideways and stepped into the sea, saying to himself,' is an example of alliteration. Alliteration is a figure of speech that deals with sound. It refers to the repetition of a consonant or a vowel sound.

Explanation:

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cabeza de vaca was an spanish explorer and n his long exploration of 11,000.km. from florida to present-day mexico, he went through a series of calamities and setbacks that only added to his deeds. he applied his religious creed with the humanist idea, always current and universal, that all men were equal before god and destiny without any discrimination. as an explorer, he became a slave to the tipinoga, then his shaman pointer, later and after an operation of heart to an indian (from which both came alive) he achieved stardom and became a hero followed by a crowd that professed unusual respect and admiration.

go to crash course lititure and go to seconed page and it shows a video about that