Question

looking at the hard, plaster cast that extended from her hand to her shoulder, jillian groaned for the billionth time. she couldnt believe that—in a split second—she had broken her arm in two places and had ruined her chances of becoming the leading scorer on the girls varsity basketball team. she thought back to the moment that had led to her current situation. what seemed at the time as a snappy solution quickly snowballed into a catastrophe. jillian sat on her bedroom floor organizing notebooks, folders, and textbooks. she had designated a color to each class—yellow for accelerated geometry, green for chemistry i, orange for american government, and so on. jillian always joked that she was only good at two things: organization and basketball. jillians
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raquel lindell
× read the excerpt from the passage, then select the sentence that makes use of alliteration.

Explanation:

Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words. In the sentence "Jillian groaned for the billionth time. She couldn't believe that—in a split second—she had broken her arm in two places and had ruined her chances of becoming the leading scorer on the girls' varsity basketball team. She thought back to the moment that had led to her current situation. What seemed at the time as a snappy solution quickly snowballed into a catastrophe", the repetition of the 'b' sound in "broken", "billionth", "basketball" shows alliteration.

Answer:

Jillian groaned for the billionth time. She couldn't believe that—in a split second—she had broken her arm in two places and had ruined her chances of becoming the leading scorer on the girls' varsity basketball team. She thought back to the moment that had led to her current situation. What seemed at the time as a snappy solution quickly snowballed into a catastrophe.