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... alliteration , the latter internal allitera- tion or hidden alliteration . We recognize alliteration by sound , not by spelling : know and nail alliterate , know and key do not . In a line by E. E. Cummings , " colossal hoax of clocks ...
... alliteration , the latter internal allitera- tion or hidden alliteration . We recognize alliteration by sound , not by spelling : know and nail alliterate , know and key do not . In a line by E. E. Cummings , " colossal hoax of clocks ...
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... alliteration , but to repeat the sound of a vowel is to produce asso- nance . Like alliteration , assonance may occur either initially — “ all the awful auguries " or internally - Spenser's " Her goodly eyes like sapphires shining ...
... alliteration , but to repeat the sound of a vowel is to produce asso- nance . Like alliteration , assonance may occur either initially — “ all the awful auguries " or internally - Spenser's " Her goodly eyes like sapphires shining ...
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... alliteration . What patterns of initial alliteration do you find ? What patterns of internal alliteration ? What effect is created by all this heavy emphasis ? Alexander Pope ( 1688-1744 ) INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN WESTMINSTER ...
... alliteration . What patterns of initial alliteration do you find ? What patterns of internal alliteration ? What effect is created by all this heavy emphasis ? Alexander Pope ( 1688-1744 ) INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN WESTMINSTER ...
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Figures of Speech | 2 |
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A. E. Housman Alexander Pope alliteration anthology attitude ballad bird Blake blue called cesura concrete Concrete poetry connotations couplet dance dark dead death denotation diction dream E. E. Cummings Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes feel figures of speech following poem Frankie Gerard Manley Hopkins green hear heart Hurroo iambic imagery irony John Johnny kiss lady language light live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton's mind myth never night open form paraphrase pattern pauses phrase poem aloud poet poet's poetry Pope prose QUESTIONS reader rhythm Robert Frost simile sing song sonnet sound speak speaker stanza stresses suggest sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme thing Thomas thou thought tone tree usually verse W. H. Auden Whitman William William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind Wordsworth write Yeats