Difference betweet 'consonance' and 'alliteration'?
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Alliteration differs from consonance insofar as alliteration requires the repeated consonant sound to be at the beginning of each word, where in consonance it is anywhere within the word, although often at the end
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Nice GMAT question...\n\nMy version would be as follows:\n"The music comes from nowhere and everywhere at the same time..."\n\nYour 1st sentence used "in particular", which has nothing to balance out in the second half of the phrase...\n\nThe other three sentences are downscaling things, where sound is everywhere, then its nowhere...its coming from everywhere, but I can't hear it...\n\nWhat I did is simply flipped it the other way round...\nSound comes from nowhere, but I can hear it coming from everywhere...
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Your rhythm is good, but your grammar needs a bit of work. In the second, "swift" should be "swiftly", if you're going to follow it with "slowly". I would suggest replacing "we" with the second syllable of "ly". Not only would this make a little more sense grammatically, if you read it as "It ran so swiftly, slowly", it would make a good example of irony.\n\nAlso, the fourth line doesn't make a lot of sense. "Divine destruction on to you and heart"? There are plenty of rhymes for "apart"; I would suggest "start".
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Most allophonic variation is complementary - i.e. the allophones are distributed such that they do not overlap. For example, the unaspirated allophone of /p/ in English occurs after voiceless sibilants but not in other positions.\n\nAllophonic variation is determined therefore by the place or manner of articulation of the realisation of the phoneme in question or of neighbouring phonemes.  In Standard British English, the 'dark' allophone of /l/ occurs only in syllable-final position and is in complementary distributiuon with the 'light' /l/ allophone which occurs in syllable-initial or -medial position.
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Depends on context.\nIf you are learning a language the main difference it that for writing you have much more time, where for talking you have to react to your partner in conversation, and must think on your feet. \n\nThere will be differences in style, written language tends to be much more formal than spoken language, and changes are slower.\n\nAs has been pointed out before, in a conversation you have also the intonation as additional clue, reading a written text you have to imagine it.
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uniqueandsweet713\nhope you like!
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* Denotation refers to the literal meaning of a word, the "dictionary definition."¨ For example, if you look up the word snake in a dictionary, you will discover that one of its denotative meanings is "any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles¡having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions."\n    * Connotation, on the other hand, refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to that word. The connotative meanings of a word exist together with the denotative meanings. The connotations for the word snake could include evil or danger.\n\nExamples:  While "necktie" and "cravat" have the same denotation, they have quite different connotations. "Cravat" carries an added implication of wealth or snootiness.\n\nAlso consider "red." It denotes a particular colour, but also has connotations of irritation or anger in certain contexts.
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Metaphor and alliteration are poetic devices, not poetic forms. Familiarize yourself with the terms and then read poems by whatever poet(s) strikes your fancy.
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Sadly Ally H's sentance (sic) doesn't make sense.\nHowever, imagine a sign writer had written this pub sign:\n "TheCoachandHorses" with no gaps between words.\nYou'd have to tell the sign writer, "You've not left enough space between "Coach" and "and" and "and" and Horses." 5 in a row and making perfect sense.
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Very nice; you must have picked up on the hidden clue.\n\nFrankly, it all depends.  I personally am not very found of grammatical rules, as they seem to be inherently limiting.  As far as I am concerned, you can throw the majority of those rules out the window, as long as you can express yourself clearly and be easily understood.   Case in point: Linguists and English professors do NOT usually make great writers, do they?   In principle, of course, one can always make a strong formal English punctuation argument in favor of your choice "b".  But to me "a" looks much "prettier".   So the question is: Should we keep shoving food into our mouths, mindlessly chewing, and promptly swallowing till our stomachs are full, or should we try to eat less, but eat with our eyes and palates too?   I suppose, it all depends on the circumstances and your point of view.   For instance, if you end up in a hospital with a sever case of malnutrition and dehydration, they “ain’t” “gonna” care much about how you are gonna eat or drink, as long as they end up pumping enough liquids and nutrients into you to save your life.   ... The punctuation waters start getting even murkier as more and more people begin to impose their own rules and restrictions on-line.   Ironically-enough (notice I said Ironically-enough and NOT anomalously-enough LOL) take your own example in this here on-line Y!A milieu, for instance.    The Y!A software will automatically add a question mark (i.e. a "?") to the end of every statement posted, no matter what you do, and be it really a question or NOT!  (And still, they dare to complain that some of those questions aren’t exactly questions)!  LOL    Hence, in a Y!A environment at least, both your choices would be forced into a punctually incorrect stratosphere (for "a" would become "lovelorn"??, and "b" would be transformed into "lovelorn?"?) and the only correct choice would appear to be “the initially incorrect one”, namely just “lovelorn”.  … Now, go figure!   LOL     … Yes my friend, even the oracle should strive for anomalism, at times.  :-)
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tweety.. cause its so sweety:)
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I don't know if it's actually rude or not, but I did read somewhere that when a person types in all caps, it signifies raising one's voice. (as in anger) So, maybe it is rude. Sometimes I do it when I'm laughing at something, though...
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Yes, I would say it is. Sounds good. Be forewarned that alliteration is best taken in small doses. It can overwhelm the poem and the reader; then, there you are!\n\nal·lit·er·a·tion (ə-lĭt'ə-rā'shən)\n The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in “on scrolls of silver snowy sentences” (Hart Crane). Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.[From AD– + Latin littera, letter.]\nthe repetition of the same starting sound in several words of a sentence. Probably the most powerful rhythmic and thematic uses of alliteration are contained in Beowulf, written in Anglo-Saxon and one of the earliest English poems extant. For example:\n\nÐa com of more under mist-hleopum\nGrendel gongan; Godes yrre baer...\n\n(Then came from the moor, under the misty hills,\nGrendel stalking; the God's anger bare).\n— Beowulf, Book XI The poet was drawing here on an even older Germanic tradition, just as he was setting a high standard for other poets in Anglo-Saxon, who produced such alliterative works as Widsith, Deor's Lament, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Ruin. Although the tradition lay dormant for centuries, an alliterative revival occurred in England in the mid-1400s, as evidenced by such masterworks as Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (see Langland, William; Pearl, The). Shakespeare parodies alliteration in Peter Quince's Prologue in A Midsummer Night's Dream:\n\nWhereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,\nHe bravely breach'd his boiling bloody breast.\nModern poets have continually renewed the possibilities of alliteration, e.g., Gerard Manley Hopkins's “Pied Beauty”:\n\nGlory be to God for dappled things...\nLandscapes plotted and pieced—fold, fallow and plough;\nAnd áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
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At first glance, the thing that jumped out at me was the use of alliteration, which is the repetition of the same first sound or first letter. (perfection of paper, etc). He seems to use this repeatedly.
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the vine's expository does not say "one another".  "one another" is allelon or allos. there are other words used as well, but that one is most common.  \n\nepsilon iota sigma, (hice, pronouced like "ace") (is "one", like the cardinal number one).  in context, meaning one and the same.
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Big deal !\nI could definitely write a better\nproverb than thaaaaaaaaaaaaa\naaaaaaaaaaaaa\naaaaaaaaaaaa\naaaaaaaaaaa\naaaaaaaaaa\naaaaaaaaa\naaaaaaaa\naaaaaaa\naaaaaa\naaaaa\naaaa\naaa\naa\na\na\na\nt\n(boom)
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Alliteration - The commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in Apt Alliteration's Artful Aid \n\nAllusion - A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare. \n\nAnalogy - A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump. \n\nAssonance - \n1. Resemblance of sounds.  \n2. Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.  \n\nBlank Verse - Unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.\n\nImagery - The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream. \n\nMetaphor - A comparison that does not use the words; "like" or "as"\n\nMeter - Poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses. \n\nOnomatopoeia -  The formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.  \n\nPersonification - Giving an inanimate object human traits.\n\nRepetition - The act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation\n\nRhyme Scheme - The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc. \n\nRhythm - Metrical or rhythmical form; meter. \n\nFree Verse - Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.\n\nSimile - A comparison using the words; "like" or "as"\n\nStanza - An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.\n\nSymbol - A word, phrase, image, or the like having a complex of associated meanings and perceived as having inherent value separable from that which is symbolized, as being part of that which is symbolized, and as performing its normal function of standing for or representing that which is symbolized: usually conceived as deriving its meaning chiefly from the structure in which it appears, and generally distinguished from a sign. \n\nTone - To give a particular tone or inflection to. \n\nNext time, do your own homework!