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Which sound device is being utilized in the underlined words from Whitman's poem?
"The ship is anchor'd safe and sound"
A. alliteration
B. repetition
C. assonance
D. onomatopoeia
 
O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
 
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
    But O heart! heart! heart!
       O the bleeding drops of red,
           Where on the deck my Captain lies,
                Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills;
 
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths-for you the shores a-crowding:
 
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
     Here Captain! dear father!
         This arm beneath your head;
             It is some dream that on the deck,
                 You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor

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