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Which figure of speech is used in this text?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.

-Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

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alliteration

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Alliteration

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The figure of speech used in the text is alliteration, which is the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in...