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Alliteration - The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. Alliteration need not reuse all initial consonants; “pizza” and “place” alliterate. Example: “We saw the sea sound sing, we heard the salt sheet tell,” from Dylan Thomas’s “Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed.”
Allegory - An extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning. Often an allegory’s m