This Dust Was Once the Man


This dust was once the man,

Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,

Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,

Was saved the Union of these States


Walt Whitman


What literary device does this poem include at the end of each line? (5 points)



Alliteration



Assonance



Consonance



Onomatopoeia