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1. alliteration
Definition: the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stresd syllables of an English language phra.
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Examples: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the c olor of their skin but by the c ontent of their c haracter". -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal —is the s tar that guides us s till; just as it guided our forebears through S eneca Falls, and S elma, and S tonewall; just as it guided all tho men and women, s ung and un s ung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth". -Barack Obama
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2. assonance
Definition: The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words to create internal rhyming within phras or ntences, and together with alliteration and consonance rves as one of the building blocks of ver.
Examples:
"Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished in low circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds, dragging their long tails amid the rattling canisters."
(James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916)
"The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent and ragged, their legs drying in knots."
(Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm, 1977)
3. consonance
Definition:Broadly, the repetition of consonant sounds; more specifically, the repetition of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words.
Examples:
‘T was later when the summer went
Than when the cricket came,
And yet we knew that gentle clock
Meant nought but going home.
‘T w as sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps esoteric time.
(Emily Dickinson, "‘T was later when the summer went")
4. onomatopoeia
Definition:
Onomatopoeia is defined as a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing, which it
describes. It creates a sound effect that makes the thing described, making the idea more expressive and interesting.
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The sack fell into the river with a splash.
The books fell on the table with a loud thump.
He looked at the roaring sky.
The rustling leaves kept me awake.
a group of words reflecting different sounds of water are; bloop, splash, gush, sprinkle, drizzle, drip etc.
Similarly, words like growl, giggle, grunt, murmur, blurt, chatter etc. denote different kinds of human voices.
Moreover, we can identify a group of words related to different sounds of wind, such as; swish, swoosh, whiff, whoosh, whizz, whisper etc.
5. simile
Definition: A simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. Unlike a metaphor, a simile draws remblance with the help of words ―like‖ or ―as‖. Therefore, it is direct comparison.
Examples:
1. Written by Joph Conrad,
―I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itlf in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cru el wires of a cage.‖
2. In her novel ―To the Lighthou‖, Virginia Woolf compares the velocity of her thoughts about the two men with that of spoken words.
―. . . impressions poured in upon her of tho two men, and to follow her thought was like followin g a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one‘s pencil . . .‖
3. Robert Burns us a simile to describe beauty of his beloved.
―O my Luve‘s like a red, red ro
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That‘s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve‘s like the melodie
That‘s sweetly played in tune.‖
6. metaphor
Definition:Metaphor is a figure of speech makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them. In other words, a remblance of two contradictory or different objects is made on a single or some common characteristics.
Examples:
1. ―She is all states, and all princes, I.‖
John Donne , a metaphysical poet, was well-known for his abundant u of metaphors
