What is assonance?
a. repetition of vowel sounds within words
b. repetition of words throughout a poem
c. repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables within a poem
d. repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words \

Which of the following characters from a midsummer night's dream is used as an allusion to earlier english poetry

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What is the effect of the author's choice of the word loathsome rather than hateful in this sentence from the count of monte cristo? two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration. it reveals that the unpleasant aspects of the stairway are manmade. it stresses the disgusting, offensive nature of the stairway. it suggests that the soldiers are used to the place and do not hate it. it implies that the effects of the stairway are felt only by the inspector.