Parallel Posts from late 1/10, early 1/11
It's tough to pick a favorite for alliteration, but I really like Rossetti, so here's the opening line from "Jenny": "Lazy laughing languid Jenny"-- an example of both assonance and consonance.
My daughter just said this the other day- "She is pretty ugly"- My favorite oxymoron: Jumbo Shrimp.
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And here is one of my all-time favorite examples of alliteration. He begins using alliteration at about 30 seconds in.- And here is one of my all-time favorite examples of alliteration. He begins using alliteration at about 30 seconds in.
- I may be jumping the gun a little, but here is my example of oxymoron.
I understand oxymoron as the juxtaposition of two ideas that seem contradictory but still somehow have a nuanced force or meaning. It can involve two words or two phrases.
For a word-level oxymoron: "waking nightmare"
For a phrase-level oxymoron, I offer my brother's favorite defense in any argument: "You shut your mouth when you're talking to me!"
posted by Stevens Amidon at 3:28 AM
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