Concept:The dominant sound device in the passage is alliteration, the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighbouring words.
Explanation:Alliteration focuses on the same consonant sound at the beginning of words that are close together.
Line 1 repeats the /b/ sound: “breeze” and “blew”.
Line 2 repeats the /f/ sound: “foam” and “flew”.
Line 3 repeats the /f/ sound: “furrow”, “followed”, and “free”.
Line 4 repeats the /w/ sound: “we” and “were”.
Line 5 repeats the /s/ sound: “silent” and “sea”.
These repeated consonant sounds create musicality and emphasis, making alliteration the most prominent device.
The poem also contains rhyme, but the question asks for the dominant figure of speech.
Paradox does not appear because there is no apparent contradiction.
Repetition is present only as a general idea, not as the key literary device.
Answer:A. alliteration