Read the excerpt from "Sea Fever." Then, use the drop-down menus to answer the questions. Identify the sound device shown in boldface in the poem. Identify the mood that has been created by the way this stanza sounds.

the answer is alliteration and wistful

This question is incomplete. Here is the complete question:

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

-"Sea Fever,"

John Masefield

Read the excerpt from "Sea Fever." Then, use the drop-down menus to answer the questions.

1) Identify the sound device shown in boldface in the poem.

A. meter

B. onomatopoeia

C. alliteration

2) Identify the mood that has been created by the way this stanza sounds.

A. wistful

B. joyful

C. angry

Answer:

The correct answers are:

1) C

2) A

Explanation:

Let's start by clarifying what alliteration is.

It is a literary device that consists of repeating a variety of the same or similar sounds within a text, hence it is considered a figure of diction due to the effect it produces. Now, the consequent repetition of a sound must occur in the same phrase or word, in this case: windy.

On the other hand we must identify the mood of these lines, and we must say that it is wistful since the speaker is longing to return to the sea, he can even hear its call.