Weave a circle round him thrice,

And close your eyes with holy dread,

For he on honeydew hath fed,

And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Which sound device is used in these lines from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to emphasize the amazement the speaker expects people to feel if he is able to build a dome of air?

the consonance between "close" and "eyes"

the consonance between "drunk" and "milk"

the alliteration between "honeydew" and "hath"

the assonance between "close" and "holy"

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Ronin Choi

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15 June, 19:38

Weave a circle round him thrice,

And close your eyes with holy dread,

For he on honeydew hath fed,

And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Which sound device is used in these lines from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to emphasize the amazement the speaker expects people to feel if he is able to build a dome of air?

the consonance between "close" and "eyes"

the consonance between "drunk" and "milk"

the alliteration between "honeydew" and "hath"

the assonance between "close" and "holy"

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Hayden Huber · Answer 1

The sound device which is used in the above lines from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to emphasize the amazement the speaker expects people to feel if he is able to build a dome of air is:

the assonance between "close" and "holy"

Explanation:

Assonance is a figure of speech in which the sound of the words or the syllables has a resemblance with each other. The resemblance of a vowel sound is said to be assonance.

Heaven Howard · Answer 2

The consonance between "close" and "eyes"