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Alliteration is a phonetic stylistic device which aims at im­parting a melodic effect to the utterance. The essence of this device lies in the repetition of similar sounds, in particular consonant sounds, in close succession, particularly at the beginning of successive words. Often alliteration is seen with two words that have the same letter such as “swimming swan,” but alliteration can also be seen in the use of similar sounds, even if different letters are used. For example, “champagne” and “sure” don’t start with the same consonant but they sound similar in pronunciation. “Fade” and “phase” similarly have different starting letters but are close in sound. Alliteration can be a fun literary device to greatly improve a poem’s storytelling. When read aloud, poems with alliteration have l…

Parallel construction is a device which may be encoun­tered not so much in the sentence as in the macro-structures dealt with earlier, viz. the SPU and the paragraph. The necessary condition in parallel construction is identical, or similar, syntactical structure in two or more sentences or parts of a sentence in close succession, as in: "There were, ..., real silver spoons to stir the tea with, and real china cups to drink it out of, and plates of the same to hold the cakes and toast in." (Dickens) Parallel constructions are often backed up by repetition of words (lexical repetition) and conjunctions and prepositions (polysyndeton). Pure parallel construction, however, does not depend on any other kind of repetition but the repetition of the syntactical design of the sentence. Parallel c…

Western notation had been trying to create this compression for a long time. It fulfills a traditional genre called “shape poetry.” Shape poems, or pattern poems, are poems whose shape refers to their subject: a poem about an altar in the shape of an altar, a poem about an ax in the shape of one, a poem about an umbrella which outlines a raised umbrella. It is an old genre.The following poem is shaped as an altar: The Altar A broken ALTAR, Lord thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with teares: Whose parts are as thy hand did frame; No workmans tool hath touch'd the same A HEART alone Is such a stone, As nothing but Thy pow'r doth cut. Wherefore each part Of my hard heart Meets in this frame, To praise thy Name: That if I chance to hold my peace, These stones to praise thee may…

Repetition as a stylistic device is a direct successor of repetition as an expressive language means, which serves to emphasize certain statements of the speaker, and so possesses considerable emotive force. As to the position occupied by the repeated unit in the sentence or utterance, we shall mention four main types, most frequently occurring in English literature: 1) anaphora – the repetition of the first word of several succeeding sentences or clauses (a …, a …, a …); 2) epiphora – the repetition of the final word (… a, … a, … a); 3) anadiplosis or catch repetition – the repetition of the same unit (word or phrase) at the end of the preceding and at the beginning of the sentence (…a, a …); The combination of several catch repetitions produces a chain repetition. 4) framing or ring rep…