Read the following stanza:The satin shine of Sunday dresses,Bustling, swishing, lovely lasses.What is an effect of the alliteration in this stanza?A.The s sound is emphasized in both lines.B.The first line has eight syllables, and the second has nine.C.The words dresses and lasses rhyme in an inexact way.D.The repeating consonants make the lines seem rapid.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Which line from the poem contains the strongest example of alliteration?A.And watched the smoke that rises from the pipesB.The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panesC.Scuttling across the floors of silent seasD.Curled once about the house and fell asleepSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Why might alliteration strengthen the impact of poetic language?A.It creates a sense that the words go together or seem "right."B.It explores complex emotions that are difficult to express.C.It catches the reader by surprise through vivid imagery.D.It contains important themes that demand the reader's attention.

Alliteration: The repetition of initial stressed consonant sounds within a phrase or verse line. For example, "With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim" from Gerard Manley Hopkins's “Pied Beauty”

Choose the poem that uses alliteration.Then, suddenly, in a curve of the road,Red tulips!A bright battalion, swaying,They marched with fluttering flags.Though your beauty were a netOf unimagined power,It could not hold me tonight;For I am all spirit.

Choose the poem that uses alliteration.Now silent, now singing and swaying and swinging,like blossoms that bend to the breezes or showers,Now wantonly winding, they flash, now they falter,and, lingering, languish in radiant choir.So mirrored in thy heart are all desires,Eternal longings, Youth's inheritance,All hopes that token immortality,All griefs whereto immortal grief aspires.