Read the poem below and answer the question that follows."god's world"by edna st. vincent millayo world, i cannot hold thee close enough! thy winds, thy wide grey skies! thy mists, that roll and rise! thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sagand all but cry with colour! that gaunt cragto crush! to lift the lean of that black bluff! world, world, i cannot get thee close enough! long have i known a glory in it all, but never knew i this: here such a passion isas stretcheth me apart,—lord, i do fearthou'st made the world too beautiful this year; my soul is all but out of me,—let fallno burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call. source: millay, edna st. vincent. "god's world." renascence and other poems. new york: harper and brothers, 1917. poetry foundation. web. 6 may 2011.which line from the poem above illustrates alliteration?

That gaunt crag to crush!

Explanation:

Alliteration is the repetition of beginning sounds. In this line 'crag' and crush' both begin with 'cr' sound - alliteration!

“To lift the lean of that black bluff!” is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Alliteration is a rhetorical device. It is a type of repetition and it is characterized because the speaker puts in a phrase words with the same sound at the beginning (starting with consonants.) We can see this at the end of the line, with the words black buff; due to this, it is the correct answer.

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edwards uses the phrase "o who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! " in order to illustrate that this type of suffering is unimaginable. the word "express" denoted that the state of a suffering soul is required to be described by any person, but it would not happen because no one can imagine how this suffering is felt.  

-show what might happen if the reader disobeys edwards is not correct because this is described trhough the text, not by the phrase used.

-describe what endless suffering looks and feels like is not correct because this description might be the porpuse of the excerpt provided, not the porpuse of using the phrase during the writting.

-prove that few people have survived limitless suffering is not correct because it is implied that the soul of a person is already suffering and doesn't have any way to escape.