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... alliteration ; the latter , internal allit- eration or hidden alliteration . We recognize alliteration by sound , not by spelling : know and nail alliterate , know and key do not . Incidentally , the letter r does not always lend itself ...
... alliteration ; the latter , internal allit- eration or hidden alliteration . We recognize alliteration by sound , not by spelling : know and nail alliterate , know and key do not . Incidentally , the letter r does not always lend itself ...
Page 128
... alliteration for very special occasions . They may use it to give emphasis , as in Edward Lear's lines " Far and few , far and few , / Are the lands where the Jumblies live . " With its aid they can point out the relationship between ...
... alliteration for very special occasions . They may use it to give emphasis , as in Edward Lear's lines " Far and few , far and few , / Are the lands where the Jumblies live . " With its aid they can point out the relationship between ...
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... Alliteration and assonance are not the only elements that make poetry memorable , but in some poems they can help . EXERCISE TWo In the following two - line poem , pick out the patterns of alliteration and assonance . Describe their ...
... Alliteration and assonance are not the only elements that make poetry memorable , but in some poems they can help . EXERCISE TWo In the following two - line poem , pick out the patterns of alliteration and assonance . Describe their ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats