What is this figurative language?

Question

"It took some time to try to light the fire."

-Simile

-Metaphor

-Personification

-Onomatopoeia

-Oxymoron

-Idiom

-Hyperbole

-Allusion

-Alliteration

-Pun

-Assonance

-Synecdoche

-Irony

Answer 1

This is alliteration. There are several words beginning with the same consonant and creating the same sound - "t."