alliteration, assonance and consonance. poems often utilize many devices to be effective and...
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Alliteration, Assonance and Consonance
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• Poems often utilize many devices to be effective and successful.
• Three related terms referring to sound in poetry are alliteration, assonance, and consonance.
• These three terms are often confused for one another, or used in place of one another. Though they are related, they are quite different.
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•Alliteration is the repetition of consonants within words in close proximity.• Alliteration generally refers to sounds at the start of a word. Here is an example from beowulf
feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,weox under wolcnum, weorþ-myndum þah
Alliteration
In the first line, the letter 'f' is used in repetition, and the same with 'w' in the second line.
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Here is another example of alliteration from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty”
• Glory be to God for dappled things...
Landscapes plotted and pieced—fold, fallow and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
• Find the alliteration???
• In this example the letter “g” is used in repetition in the first line, “p” and “f” in the second line, and “t” in the third line.
• Glory be to God for dappled things...
Landscapes plotted and pieced—fold, fallow and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.