Examples of Anaphora in Poetry Gwendolyn Brooks uses anaphora by repeating the single word “we” in We Real Cool, emphasizing the speakers’ steady movement toward a tragic end. As Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem The Hill We Climb nears its end, the poet repeats “we will” to inspire unit...
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What is an example of anaphora in the poetry of Walt Whitman? The spotted hawk swoops by completes Whitman's poem, "Song Of Myself." What do lines 7-16 suggest about the theme of Whitman's long, multipart poem? What type of poem is Song by John Donne? What is the poem Song by...
One discovers numerous examples in which De Luca uses such rhetorical devices as anadiplosis or the repetition of a word at the end of a clause or at the beginning of another; anaphora or the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses; or anastroph...
To exorcise the associations of that jarring half-rhyme, Cameron had recourse to the whole rhetorical tool kit—anaphora, antithesis, tricolon, and the rest. From The New Yorker Dele Alli is 18, and as well as being a sonically delicious half-rhyme, is also a midfielder. From The Guardian...
of special beauty or charm, or rare and appealing excellence, as a face, a flower, coloring, music, or poetry. Synonyms:elegant,beautiful,dainty Antonyms:inelegant,graceless extraordinarily fine or admirable;consummate: exquisite weather. Synonyms:matchless,rare ...
common in Spanish poetry, consisting in using the same vowel-sound with different consonants, and requiring the use of the same vowels in the assonant words from the last accented vowel to the end of the word: thus, man and hat, penitent and reticence, are examples of assonance in English...