The apathetic college student was clearly confused on his final exam. Type of figurative language?

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Whenever you see more words next to each other that have the same starting sound, you instantly know that the type of figurative language is alliteration, where you repeat consonant sounds at the beginning of a few words. In our case, it is the "c" sound in clearly confused. There are some wild alliterations that people make such as...

Big blue bouncing bubbles bounce backwards into the bakery bread.

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the correct answer is

the

third option. in the excerpt from "why equal pay is worth fighting

for" by senator elizabeth warren, she supports her point by noting:

"for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by.”

warren supported barbara mikulski’s the paycheck fairness act to combat wage

discrimination, as it would to ensure “that salary differences have

something to do with the actual job that they are doing, and not just because

they are women”.