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  2. Assonance - Wikipedia

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    Assonance is common in proverbs: The squeaky wheel gets the grease. The early bird catches the worm. Total assonance is found in a number of Pashto proverbs from Afghanistan: La zra na bal zra ta laar shta. "From one heart to another there is a way." [5] Kha ghar lwar day pa sar laar lary. "Even if a mountain is very high, there is a path to ...

  3. Alliteration - Wikipedia

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    For example, S sounds can imply danger or make the audience feel as if they are being deceived. [37] Other sounds can likewise generate positive or negative responses. [38] Alliteration serves to "intensify any attitude being signified". [39]: 6–7 An example is in John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, in which he uses alliteration 21 times.

  4. An Introduction to Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    Dale identifies the following varieties of Assonance Rhyme: Single Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: feast / feed) Double Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: fever / feature) Triple Assonance with Head Rhyme (example: rosary / ropery)

  5. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects." (from "Sweet Potato Pie," Eugenia Collier) Example: The beast had eyes as big as baseballs and teeth as long as knives. Example: She put her hand to the boy's head, which was steaming like a hot train.

  6. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    The juxtaposition of unexpected or impossible images is, for example, a particularly strong element in surrealist poetry and haiku. [112] Vivid images are often endowed with symbolism or metaphor. Many poetic dictions use repetitive phrases for effect, either a short phrase (such as Homer's "rosy-fingered dawn" or "the wine-dark sea") or a ...

  7. Alliteration (Latin) - Wikipedia

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    Another Ennius example, which Austin describes as "noble", [46] is the following iambic octonarius. Here there is assonance between Magna Templa ... and -Mixta sTellīs at corresponding places in the two halves of the line, combined with alliteration of C, S, and minor alliteration of P and L: ō Magna Templa Caelitum ComMixta Stellīs Splendidīs

  8. Ode to a Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    The poem incorporates a complex reliance on assonance—the repetition of vowel sounds—in a conscious pattern, as found in many of his poems. Such a reliance on assonance is found in very few English poems. Within "Ode to a Nightingale", an example of this pattern can be found in line 35 ("Already with thee! tender is the night"), where the ...

  9. Oral tradition - Wikipedia

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    Oral cultures have employed various strategies that achieve this without writing. For example, a heavily rhythmic speech filled with mnemonic devices enhances memory and recall. A few useful mnemonic devices include alliteration, repetition, assonance, and proverbial sayings.