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amick9788
amick9788
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College - Sophomore

What words in the poem have sound that reflects and reinforces meaning, such as "rapping, tapping" or "silken sad uncertain rustling"?

I'm particularly interested in examples of alliteration, assonance, consonance, internal rhyme, or onomatopoeia.

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Posted by amick9788 on Friday October 23, 2009 at 8:06 AM and tagged with alliteration, and onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, internal rhyme, the raven.

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  1. itsmrd
    itsmrd Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    Alliteration is the repetition of the initial sound of words, like "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Assonance is repeated vowel sounds, like "The fat cat saw a rat, but the rat went scat as the fat cat just sat." Internal rhyme is rhyming words within a line. An example from Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven is "Nothing further then he uttered--not a feather then he fluttered--till I scarcely more than muttered, 'Other friends have flown before...'" Onomatopoeia are words that sound like the sound to which they refer--"buzz," "hiss," "bang," or "cockadoodledoo."

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    Posted by itsmrd on Saturday October 24, 2009 at 10:46 PM