Alliteration

the lines, “The ball slides up and out,” and “dives down and through.” 3. Hoey uses similar sounds in lines 19 – 22, “lands, leans, wobbles, wavers, hesitates, exasperates.” In these lines there are two examples of alliterations and one example of assonance. The examples of alliterations are “lands, leans,” which both begin with an ‘l’ and “wobbles, wavers,” which both begin with a ‘w’. The example of assonance in the lines are “hesitates, exasperate,” because both words end in ‘ates’. Hoey…

attacks and shows how America is a strong, prepared country. Bush gives his speech a poetic rhythm by repeating specific sounds throughout the piece. For instance, he says “powerful, and it’s prepared.” This is an example of both consonance and alliteration. The sound of the…

the poem Roethke starts by using repetition giving the reader the beauty of a poem coupled with the sadness of everyday office life. Roethke wants the reader to feel the sadness oozing from the office worker and he does so with clever repetition, alliteration and strong personification. "Dolor" by Theorore Roethke is a sorrowful yet gripping poem that depicts…

In the poem, “Player Piano”, John Updike demonstrates a lot of feeling and emotion of an unhuman piano. By having detailed imagery of sounds, figures of speech, and rhyme, he portrays the reader into the picture of a machine-like device that has its own natural music language. This 12-line poem recalls the life and achievements of a player piano. In the first and second line, there is a lot of assonance (the repetition of sound in a vowel) and consonance (reassurance of similar sound) that are…

borders of the Desolation of the Dragon’ (pg 232). Lastly is when J R R Tolkien describes the scene before the Battle of the Five Armies, ‘Winter thunder on a wild rolled roaring up and rumbled in the Mountain, and lightning lit its peak’ (pg 255). Alliterations also contribute to the theme of imagery in Tolkien’s…

“The one.” Tavin and Joseph. (Lyric poem.) If only you could put yourself in my shoes, You would get that feeling I have in my heart. She is the butterfly that flies and rests on my strong shoulder smoothly, The one that causes my heart to beat as hard as a mallet. I’m sure she is the one who was made for me, No doubt, she is the one to first steal my heart. The one whom her voice simply gives me goosebumps. And the one whom her fabulous face flashes in my dreams every night. She is the one I…

1.0 Introduction In comparing Howard Nemerov 's poem, Sonnet at Easter and Richard Wilbur 's, Sonnet, one can find how certain aspects, such as rhyme and the poems sound pattern, greatly benefit each poem in their own significant ways. By analyzing each component within the poems, a conclusion as to which piece is preferred will be reached. 2.0 Diction Firstly, It is evident that both poems successfully incorporated an acceptable amount of evocative words that truly puts the reader in a deep…

The writer enhances the mood and emotions of this song through poetic devices integrated in the song. The poetic devices in the song are repetition, consonance, assonance, alliteration, imagery, rhyme, personification, simile, paradox, metaphor, and hyperbole. Repetition is used in this song when the author includes the phrase “the sounds of silence” at the ends of almost all of the stanzas. Another, poetic device that is used…

PART ONE: POETIC DEVICES & FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Metaphor 1:Her mind is Tiffany-twisted During the second verse, Don Henley sings the line “Her mind is Tiffany-twisted”. This is a metaphor as The Eagles are comparing this girls mind to Tiffany Jewelry Store without using like or as. They compare the girl's mind to the jewellery store because the narrator notes that this girl is pretty, rich and likes to be glamorous. These specified characteristic are also seen in Tiffany & Co’s jewellery and…

abandons them. Both Desiree and her baby didn 't have their biological fathers in their lives which is considered ironic. Towards the middle of the short story alliteration was used to symbolize the way Arwas being with Desiree and the baby. (Alliteration - Examples and Definition of Alliteration (Literary Devices)) Alliteration is the same letter or sound in the beginning of connected words. The author states, “ and the very spirit of Satan seemed suddenly to take hold of him in…