What is alliteration?

a)the use of similar-sounding words in poetry

b)a pattern or beat created using stressed and unstressed syllables

c)the repetition of initial consonant sounds

d)an image that repeats or caries through an entire poem

The missionaries who appear in the novel are colonist britain, portugal, spain, or italy?

What best identifies the meter used in this passage of poetry

Mrs. hale (resentfully). i don't know as there's anything so strange, our takin' up our time with little things while wewaiting for them to get the evidence. (she sits down at the big table, smoothing out a block with decision.) i don't seeanything to laugh about.a possible disadvantage to hearing this scene, as opposed to reading it silently, is that mrs. hale may not