In the sentence, the author wants to create a pattern by repeating initial consonant sounds close together. Which choice provides the best example of this? "Barking and growling", the dog lunged at me.

Choose 1

(Choice A)

A

NO CHANGE

(Choice B)

B

snarling and howling

(Choice C)

C

barking and biting the air

 The correct answer is option C. Barking and biting the air.

Explanation:

   Here we can see an example of alliteration.

Alliteration is a rhetorical figure that consists of the repetition of sounds present in adjacent or nearby words.

It has the virtue of attracting attention and causing an effect of musicality and sound.

In simple terms, alliteration relates words that offer a partial identity of sounds to each other. If these are reproduced or are equivalent to other sounds or noise, an onomatopoeia occurs.