The birds fly high over

the hills beyond the corn fields.

The poetic device used in the above extract is

  • A assonance
  • B alliteration
  • C metaphor
  • D metonymy
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The correct answer is A. assonance

'Fly' and 'High' contains the same vowel sound /ai/

'Hills' and 'Beyond' contains the same vowel sound /i/

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