Read the following passage and answer the question.

It's not easy to know what is true for you or me

At twenty-two, my age. But I guess I'm what

I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you:

hear you, hear me-we two-you, me talk on

this page.

(I hear New York, too.) Me-who?

Hughes's use of the words "two," "you," "true," and "new" is an example of what?

alliteration

hyperbole

assonance

consonance

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7 May, 20:27

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Silas Dudley · Answer 1

It's not alliteration ... that's what I thought too. I would go with assonance -

repeated vowel sounds or consonance - repeated consonant sounds.

Jerome Simmons · Answer 2

Alliteration I believe, they sound like they rhyme but really they don't!