Which excerpt illustrates the use of alliteration in this poem?

“to what purpose, april, do you return again? ”
“not only underground are the brains of men/eaten by maggots.”
“you can no longer quiet me with the redness/of little leaves opening stickily.”
“life in itself/is nothing,/an empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.”

The answer is indeed letter C. “You can no longer quiet me with the redness/Of little leaves opening stickily.”

Explanation:

Alliteration is a literary device that consists of repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of two or more adjacent or close words. A famous tongue-twister that uses alliteration is the Peter Piper one: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Among the options provided, we can find alliteration in the third one, more specifically in the words "little leaves". These words are adjacent and begin with the same consonant sound / l /. Those characteristics constitute alliteration.

the red coloration of the lungs looks alarming and adds to the overall message that the flu is threatening apex