Which words create alliteration in the poem? wide-eyed clowns honk noses, toddlers shriek with glee, a rogue balloon stops with a pop, a big band blares its harmony.

The words that create alliteration in the poem are the following  ones: "A big band blares". Alliteration  is a stylistic device in which a number of words, have the same first consonant sound and occur close together in a series. In this case, the phoneme is the voiced bilabial plosive phoneme /b/.

Furthermore, alliteration creates a musical effect which makes the literary work pleasing to the ears and easy to remember it by heart.

the text includes parts of primary-source interviews with enslaved people to illustrate the difficulty of life on a sugar plantation in louisiana.

explanation:

the anecdote makes readers feel sorry for the man’s lack of heritage, then reminds readers that the man has an equally valuable heritage.