Read the following line: each frightening flap of his feathered wings
what poetic device does this line use?
a. alliteration
b. eye rhyme
c. simile
d. metaphor

A. alliteration

Explanation:

Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same consonant sound is repeated in the sentence. The initial syllable or the words with similar sounds appear in the same sentence. The repetition of the consonant sound appears in alliteration. In the given sentence, the words 'frightening', 'flap', 'feathered' begins with the same consonant sound 'f'. Hence, in this line alliteration has been used.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.