The bolded words are linked by assonance. The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly. He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep To scatter new potatoes that we picked, Loving their cool hardness in our hands. –“Digging,” Seamus Heaney Which statement best describes the effects of assonance in the passage? The assonance connects the work of digging to the pleasure of holding the potatoes. The assonance makes the poem sound choppy and disjointed. The assonance draws attention to the speaker’s dislike of the countryside. The assonance creates a link between the speaker’s writing and his father’s farming.