Select the correct answers. Which type of figurative language is used in this excerpt from “The Siege of Belgrade" by Alaric Alexander Watts.

An Austrian array, awfully arrayed,

Boldly by battery, besieged Belgrade.

Cossack commanders, cannonading come,

Dealing destruction’s devastating doom;

A.

alliteration

B.

metaphor

C.

personification

D.

simile

Th answer of this question is alliteration

alliteraton

Explanation:

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