“Behemoth biggest born of earth upheavedHis vastness
Fleeced the flocks and bleating rose,
As plants: Ambiguous between sea and land
The river-horse, and scaly crocodile.”
3.Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“… his appearance: something displeasing, something down-right detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere …”
4. Vladimir Nabokov’s Conclusive Evidence
“A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow.”
5. Gregory Kirschling’s The Gargoyle
“The sibilant sermons of the snake as she discoursed upon the disposition of my sinner’s soul seemed ceaseless.”
6. Alfred Tennyson’s Sir Galahad
"I leave the plain, I climb the height;
No branchy thicket shelter yields;
But blessed forms in whistling storms
Fly o’er waste fens and windy fields.”
7. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’s Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
‘Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!”
8. William Langland’s The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman
“In a summer season when soft was the sun,
I clothed myself in a cloak as I shepherd were,
Habit like a hermit’s unholy in works,
And went wide in the world wonders to hear.
But on a May morning on Malvern hills,
A marvel befell me of fairy, methought.
I was weary of wandering and went me to rest
Under a broad bank by a brook’s side,
And as I lay and leaned over and looked into the waters
I fell into a sleep for it sounded so merry.
“Then began I to dream a marvelous dream,
That I was in a wilderness wist I not where.
As I looked to the east right into the sun,
I saw a tower on a toft worthily built;
A deep dale beneath a dungeon therein,
With deep ditches and dark and dreadful of sight
A fair field full of folk found I in between,
Of all manner of men the rich and the poor,
Working and wandering as the world asketh.
Some put them to plow and played little enough,
At setting and sowing they sweated right hard
And won that which wasters by gluttony destroy.
“Some put them to pride and apparelled themselves so
In a display of clothing, they came disguised.
To prayer and penance put themselves many,
All for love of our Lord living hard lives,
In hope for to have heavenly bliss.
Such as anchorites and hermits that kept them in their cells,
And desired not the country around to roam;
Nor with luxurious living their body to please.
“And some chose trade they fared the better,
As it seemeth to our sight that such men thrive.
“And some to make mirth as minstrels know how,
And get gold with their glees guiltlessly, I hold.
But jesters and janglers children of Judas,
Feigning their fancies and making folk fools,
They have wit at will to work if they would;
Paul preacheth of them I’ll not prove it here —
Qui turpiloquium loquitur is Lucifer’s hind.
“Tramps and beggars went quickly about,
Their bellies and their bags with bread well crammed;
Cadging for their food fighting at ale;
In gluttony, God knows going to bed,
And getting up with ribaldry the thieving knaves!”
Explanation:
Whether in poems or prose, alliteration in literature is a powerful tool for emphasizing a point. Uncover some famous alliteration examples in literature.
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9. Samuel Taylor’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner“The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew,And the forrow followed free.We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea
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10. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth “Fair is foul, and foul is fair:/Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
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Answer:
1. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven
“Closed my lids, and kept them close,
And the balls like pulses beat;
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky
Lay like a load on my weary eye,
And the dead were at my feet”
2.John Milton’s Paradise Lost
“Behemoth biggest born of earth upheavedHis vastness
Fleeced the flocks and bleating rose,
As plants: Ambiguous between sea and land
The river-horse, and scaly crocodile.”
3.Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“… his appearance: something displeasing, something down-right detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere …”
4. Vladimir Nabokov’s Conclusive Evidence
“A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow.”
5. Gregory Kirschling’s The Gargoyle
“The sibilant sermons of the snake as she discoursed upon the disposition of my sinner’s soul seemed ceaseless.”
6. Alfred Tennyson’s Sir Galahad
"I leave the plain, I climb the height;
No branchy thicket shelter yields;
But blessed forms in whistling storms
Fly o’er waste fens and windy fields.”
7. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’s Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
‘Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!”
8. William Langland’s The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman
“In a summer season when soft was the sun,
I clothed myself in a cloak as I shepherd were,
Habit like a hermit’s unholy in works,
And went wide in the world wonders to hear.
But on a May morning on Malvern hills,
A marvel befell me of fairy, methought.
I was weary of wandering and went me to rest
Under a broad bank by a brook’s side,
And as I lay and leaned over and looked into the waters
I fell into a sleep for it sounded so merry.
“Then began I to dream a marvelous dream,
That I was in a wilderness wist I not where.
As I looked to the east right into the sun,
I saw a tower on a toft worthily built;
A deep dale beneath a dungeon therein,
With deep ditches and dark and dreadful of sight
A fair field full of folk found I in between,
Of all manner of men the rich and the poor,
Working and wandering as the world asketh.
Some put them to plow and played little enough,
At setting and sowing they sweated right hard
And won that which wasters by gluttony destroy.
“Some put them to pride and apparelled themselves so
In a display of clothing, they came disguised.
To prayer and penance put themselves many,
All for love of our Lord living hard lives,
In hope for to have heavenly bliss.
Such as anchorites and hermits that kept them in their cells,
And desired not the country around to roam;
Nor with luxurious living their body to please.
“And some chose trade they fared the better,
As it seemeth to our sight that such men thrive.
“And some to make mirth as minstrels know how,
And get gold with their glees guiltlessly, I hold.
But jesters and janglers children of Judas,
Feigning their fancies and making folk fools,
They have wit at will to work if they would;
Paul preacheth of them I’ll not prove it here —
Qui turpiloquium loquitur is Lucifer’s hind.
“Tramps and beggars went quickly about,
Their bellies and their bags with bread well crammed;
Cadging for their food fighting at ale;
In gluttony, God knows going to bed,
And getting up with ribaldry the thieving knaves!”
Explanation:
Whether in poems or prose, alliteration in literature is a powerful tool for emphasizing a point. Uncover some famous alliteration examples in literature.
The white foam flew,And the forrow followed free.We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea