Read the passage.
“At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God’s name.”
Which sound device is used in these lines from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to emphasize the importance of the Albatross to the story?
the assonance between “hailed” and “name”
the internal rhyme of “cross” and “Albatross”
the alliteration between “came” and “Christian”
the alliteration between “had” and “hailed