Question

How does the use of alliteration in these lines influence the reader's emotions?

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and
(from "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May" by E. E. Cummings)
A.
It creates a mental image of the seashore.
B.
It gives a musical effect to the singing shell.
C.
It emphasizes the sweetness of the song.
D.
It describes how Maggie forgot her troubles.

Answer 1

Answer:

I think so that their are two options which would be the answer it is that option (C) and (D)

Answer 2

Option B. It gives a musical effect to the singing shell- Right answer

Explanation:

Let us try to understand which option would best do it the question and why.

Alliterations a figure of speech where the poet uses this in order to bring a Musial effect and a feeling of harmony within a poem.

Here words that start with the  initial same letter or words that have the same or similar syllable are considered to give a harmonious feeling.

The word clearly represents many examples of alliteration where the letters "S" and "M" ha e been repeated a couple of times. Hence above all other options, option B would be most appropriate as it helped to creature a musical feeling to the readers.