Sociales

DEFINITIONS

* Definition of consonance: Consonance is the repetition, at close intervals, of the final consonants of accented syllables or important words , especially at the ends of words, asin blank and think or strong and string or Lady lounges lazily and Dark deep dread.

Example
Example of Consonance Literary Term
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by
RobertFrost (1874-1963)
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

* Definition ofallegory: An Allegory is a narrative having a second meaning beneath the surface one - a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Examples of allegories are the Fairie Queen byEdmund Spenser, Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan and  Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

example
The Faerie Queene
by
Edmund Spenser
Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As timeher taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am now enforst a far vnfitter taske,
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
Whose prayses hauing sleptin silence long,
Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:
Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song.

* Definition of Smile: A Simileis a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as" to draw attention to similarities about two things that are seemingly dissimilar. A metaphor is an  impliedcomparison ( Snow white fleece ) as opposed to a direct comparison in a Simile ( Fleece as white as snow).
example
Example of Simile Literary Term
ARed, Red Rose
by
Robert Burns
O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
* Definition of Metaphor: A...