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Winndara Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

What device is implemented?

So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws.

can you please name the device used, for the first part of the sentence.

thank you in advance!
  

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Hi, The repetition of the 'scr' sounds is called alliteration. I don't know what to call the 'reversal of the list'. I'd just say it's 'a rhetorical device'.

— Clive

  • Hi, The repetition of the 'scr' sounds is called alliteration.
  • I don't know what to call the 'reversal of the list'.
  • I'd just say it's 'a rhetorical device'.
  • Clive
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Hi,

The repetition of the 'scr' sounds is called alliteration.


I don't know what to call the 'reversal of the list'. I'd just say it's 'a rhetorical device'.


Clive
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