Inglise keele stilistika
They use it more
sparingly, yet rather frequently and effectively. The complete alliteration of Anglo-Saxon
poetry is sometimes used for humorous purposes:
Susan Simpson strolled sedately,
Stifling sobs, suppressing sighs. (Anon.)
Alliteration may have its share in producing an ironic effect. Byron, for example, pokes fun at
the sugar sweetness of writers of love songs through the consonants in the second line of
When amatory poets sing their loves
In liquid lines mellifluously bland...
A. may convey various shades of meaning. A.Tennyson, by the use of consonants,
suggests firmness and hardness of the eagle and rock in
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands...
In the following example the initial ,,f" is particularly appropriate to the image of the
blowing wind: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free ... (S.T. Coleridge)
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