Question

6. In the statement - The player zipped by the zonal defense and zeroed in
on the end zone, which figure of speech is used?
A. Alliteration
C. Metaphor
B. Allusion
D. Onomatopoeia​

Answer 1

The player zipped by the zonal defense and zeroed in on the end zone

Answer:

• Alliteration
• The player zipped by the zonal defense and zeroed in on the end zone.

Explanation:

• The repetition of the same consonant sound or syllable is called Alliteration.
• The given sentence has repeated 'Z' consonant sound.
• Alliteration was the most prominent feature of the verification of Anglo-Saxon and old German Poetry.

Answer 2

The figure of speech used in this sentence is "alliteration".

Explanation:

• The words which are closely connected in a sentence ending with the same letter or sound then this property is called alliteration.
• The repeated words are adjacent to each other and repeated most of the time in a sentence.
• We can say that in literature, alliteration is a word with identical sound and syllables.
• In this sentence the examples of alliteration are Zipped, zonal, zeroed and zone.