select the correct answer.\nwhat sound device...
select the correct answer.\nwhat sound device is used in this excerpt from \how the animals lost their tails and got them back traveling from philadelphia to medicine hat\?\nthere were sixty - six representatives on the committee and they decided to call it the committee of sixty - six. it was a distinguished committee and when they all sat together holding their mouths under their noses and cleaning their ears and scratching themselves under the chin looking thoughtful (just like a distinguished committee) then anybody would say just to look at them, \this must be quite a distinguished committee.\\na. assonance\nb. alliteration\nc. consonance\nd. repetition\ne. onomatopoeia
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# Brief Explanations:
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds, consonance is the repetition of final or internal consonant sounds, onomatopoeia is words that imitate sounds. Here, the word "distinguished" is repeated multiple times, which is repetition.
# Answer:
D. repetition