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What are some examples in this poem of an alliteration, consonance, and onomatopoeia?
I am trying to find examples of sound devices in
Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
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Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is a poem that is replete with sound devices.
ALLITERATION - The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are...
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