Phonetic and Graphical stylistic means
Alliteration is the repetition of the same (or similar sounds or sound clusters, usually consonants, of stressed syllables in neighboring words or at short intervals withina line or passage, usually at word beginnings. Wind whines and whines the shingle, The crazy pier stakes groan; A senile sea number seach single Slime silvered stone (James Joyce "On the beach of Fontana") Assonance is the repetition of similar vowelsounds! usually close together, to achieve a particular effect of euphony. We real cool! We left school! We lurk late! We Strike straight! We Sing sin! We Thin gin! We Jazz June! We Die soon! Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool” Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost “He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sounds the sweep…
