Cacophony:
a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
Billy Joel was able to get a good nights sleep, despight the cacophony of Quinns car scraping by.
Jabberwocky: by Lewis Carroll
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Alliteration:
The repetition of the initial consonant. Normally at least two in a row.
"..Great bodies beating at its beautiful walls...". The B sound in this alliteration gives a sense of the battle sounds, or beating sound that Beowulf created during his battle with Grendle. ."
ho hum...zzzzz...
ReplyDeletePick out an example of alliteration from Beowulf and discuss why the author uses it.