Literary consonance

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    The poem of "A Tale Of Fire and Ice" by Andrea Dietrich is a unique type of poem because of its structure, punctuation, diction, tone, and the amount of literary devices that were used. Structure is the set up of the poems, and the amount of lines and stanzas. In the poem "A Tale Of Fire and Ice" the set up was in two parts. One part is labeled "Part 1: Ice" (Dietrich 1) and the other "Part 2: Fire" (Dietrich 18). Under each part the set up has four stanzas with four lines in each. Throughout…

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    Parables are scattered all throughout the Bible. Jesus is depicted as the son of God within the Christian faith. Parables are often recorded by several of Jesus ‘disciples such as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and many other believers. Parables allowed Jesus to use real life scenarios to shed light on spiritual truths. Jesus often taught through parables because it caused his followers to search for the deeper meaning and further discover God. The parable of the sower reveals how we as Christians have…

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    Winter Sundays”, and “Unwelcome” all analyze the theme of unwantedness, they utilize different literary devices and figurative language such as repetition and symbolism to build up the audience’s sympathy while in conjunction of creating a strong rhythm with the use of consonance and rhyme scheme. Poetry allows authors to express the hardships that may have taken place within their lives with the use of literary devices. For example, in the poems “Still I Rise” and “Those Winter Sundays” the…

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    He uses many literary devices of which a few are anaphora, rhythmic syntax structure, consonance, and parallelism. In the first paragraph there are many repeating sounds, such as the S and F sounds. This creates consonance and a rhythmic syntax to the address that makes it appealing to the audience’s ear. The anaphora, in which he repeats we all throughout the whole…

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    wonderful memories they created. The theme is obvious in the line, “Such a blissful state.” She wraps up the story with “An Ode to Aged Lovers,” and “I Remember,” when she talks about aged lovers and loss. Consonance is the repetition of a consonant sound within a phrase (“Consonance”). Greethurst uses this in the line “Giggles and Guffaws Galore” in her acrostic poem. This is intended to create rhythm that is similar to the rhythm of laughter. This also adds excitement through speed and…

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    met all of the prompt’s requirements through the student’s clear and comprehensive use of detail from the poem to develop and strengthen their explanations, answers, and analyses. In conjunction, the student’s exemplary writing style enhanced the literary quality of the essay and consequently enabled the student’s thoughts and ideas to be perspicuously read. Forthwith, the student began their essay with a thesis statement that comprehensively answered the prompt’s question of “how the poet…

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    1. Find an example of a literary device and write the example. Be sure to label what device it is and explain how your example fits the description. An example I found was " Smashing their shining swords, their bloody, Hammer-forged blades onto boar-headed helmets, Slashing and stabbing with the sharpest of points ". Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in neighboring words in a line of poetry, and in lines 400-405, the "s" sound is repeated. " Smashing, shining, swords,…

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    contest call, “The Best Poem in the World” is call “Tahquamenon Falls” by Denise Rodgers. I pick this free verse poem which is compose of mostly using rhyming couplets, and with no set meter to be my entry for this contest because it uses a lot of the literary devices that we have talk about in this week. Starting off with the first stanza of this poem. In the starting line of this poem, it uses literal imagery to tell the readers to imagine some rushing water. In addition to this, in the…

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    lines memorable. For example, “The Wedding Guest beat his breast for he heard the loud bassoon” is used to give the poem a musical aspect. He also uses assonance and consonance for musical aspect as well. “Yet he cannot choose but hear” is an example of assonance. “And a good south wind sprung up from behind” is an example of consonance because the wind and behind are consonant sounds in stressed syllables. Coleridge uses personification to give non-human elements an active role in the poem. For…

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    The Opera of Existence In music, the pitches and the pauses in a composition contribute to the piece as much as, or even more than, the lyrics themselves. In non-lyrical music, each note must be deliberate, played in a certain way to achieve the desired effect. The crescendos cause feelings of power and anticipation, while decrescendos gather the attention of the audience. Each note adds to the tone of the piece, but silence similarly asserts itself in its demand to be felt. In Gymnopédie…

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