Read the passage. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover! In "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which poetic sound device echoes the human sound that is described in these lines?

A. the assonance between "green" and "cedarn"

B. the consonance between "down" and "green"

C. the assonance between "chasm" and "slanted"

D. the alliteration between "woman" and "wailing

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Annalise Morse

4 July, 11:45

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Jae · Answer 1

C. The assonance between "chasm" and "slanted" I think is the answer. I could be wrong though.