Question

1. “hear the mellow wedding bells, / golden bells!” *

a. personification
b. assonance
c. metephor
d. allusion

Explanation:

To determine the correct literary device, we analyze each option:

• Option a (personification): Personification gives human traits to non - human things. The bells here don't have human qualities attributed to them, so this is not personification.
• Option b (assonance): Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words. In the phrase “mellow wedding bells, / Golden bells”, the long “e” sound in “mellow” and “wedding”, and the short “e” sound in “bells” (and the repeated “ells” sound) create a vowel - sound repetition, which is assonance.
• Option c (metaphor): A metaphor makes a direct comparison without using “like” or “as”. There is no such direct comparison here, so this is not a metaphor.
• Option d (allusion): An allusion refers to a well - known person, place, event, or work. There is no such reference in this phrase, so this is not an allusion.

Answer:

b. assonance