The words in bold face in this excerpt from “the bells” by edgar allan poe are examples of which sound device?

keeping time, time, time,
in a sort of runic rhyme,
to the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
from the bells, bells, bells, bells,
bells, bells, bells—
from the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

a. alliteration
b. repetition
c. onomatopoeia
d. assonance

I think the correct answer from the choices listed above is option D. The words are examples of the assonance sound device. It  is the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible. Hope this answers the question.

The best idea of the second paragraph is that this matter of geography affected the spies who worked behind the enemy lines

Explanation:

This was a true story which was written inspired by the lives of two spies and this uncovers two centuries worth stories with the technology involved

Many spies were always there to report the conditions upon the two nation their progress and their economic status and the main central idea f the second passage is that many enemies worked behind the geographical borders