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What is the main literary device the author is using in these lines?

"For half a day it would go like the very mischief, and keep up such a barking and wheezing and whooping and sneezing and snorting, that I could not hear myself think for the disturbance; and as long as it held out there was not a watch in the land that stood any chance against it."

A. onomatopoeia
B. understatement
C. assonance
D. metaphor