Rhetoric - alliteration and more
Rhetoric -
Sometimes 'it's all Greek to me' as the saying goes.
Arun Sharma will be doing two sessions on rhetorical devices for BHA on June 17th and Jun 24th. If you want to check up on rhetorical devices you will find long lists in two places in Wikipedia. I have read them through several times, but struggle remembering the Greek terms and examples in old fashioned language.
A couple of tips:
Alliteration - repetition of the initial letters, mostly consonants. For example, Big Brother. The alliteration is the letter b.
Assonance, repeated sounds, usually in the middle, usually vowels.A goose and a moose. Repeated sound oose. But that is also rhyme.
Here's one which isn't: Carrots and parroting. The end ing is in only one of the words. But the sound ot is in both. Walking and talked - different first letters, different ends to the words, but al sound in the middle of both.
A couple of tips:
Alliteration - repetition of the initial letters, mostly consonants. For example, Big Brother. The alliteration is the letter b.
Assonance, repeated sounds, usually in the middle, usually vowels.A goose and a moose. Repeated sound oose. But that is also rhyme.
Here's one which isn't: Carrots and parroting. The end ing is in only one of the words. But the sound ot is in both. Walking and talked - different first letters, different ends to the words, but al sound in the middle of both.
If you want something easier to understand come along and hear from Arun at BHA.
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