Assonance, Consonance, and Paradox?

Question

What is an example of assonance, consonance, and paradox in this poem?



Still, citizen sparrow, this vulture which you call
Unnatural, let him but lumber again to air
Over the rotten office, let him bear
The carrion ballast up, and at the tall
Tip of the sky lie cruising. Then you'll see
That no more beautiful bird is in heaven's height,
No wider more placid wings, no watchfuller flight;
He shoulders nature there, the frightfully free,

The naked-headed one. Pardon him, you
Who dart in the orchard aisles, for it is he
Devours death, mocks mutability,
Has heart to make an end, keeps nature new.

Thinking of Noah, childheart, try to forget
How for so many bedlam hours his saw
Soured the song of birds with its wheezy gnaw,
And the slam of his hammer all the day beset

The people's ears. Forget that he could bear
To see the towns like coral under the keel,
And the fields so dismal deep. Try rather to feel
How high and weary it was, on the waters where

He rocked his only world, and everyone's.
Forgive the hero, you who would have died
Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide
To Ararat, all men are Noah's sons

Answer 1

You might be interested in E. W. Bullinger's work "Figures Of Speech In The Bible", a brief description of about 900 figures with examples from the bible. The descriptions are often simpler than other references, and the examples in the bible illustrate them very well.



The table of contents is online:

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/Groupings/by%20Author/Bullinger.htm The book itself is 1,300 pages, so it hasn't been scanned and put online yet.



Here is a Kindle edition at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Figures-Speech-Used-Bible-ebook/dp/B003IWZZBQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1304025649&sr=8-6



Here is a hard cover edition:

http://www.amazon.com/Figures-Speech-Bible-Explained-Illustrated/dp/B002WHZE6O/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1304025649&sr=8-10

Answer 2

Assonance - In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables (e.g., penitence, reticence).



Consonance - Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.

2. The recurrence of similar sounds, esp. consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody)



paradox- statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory

Answer 3

seem it up in a dictionary, study what it skill, even if it right into a scentence (no longer the single in the dictionary) and placed a image on your sentence. Why make people on the internet do your homework for you!?! My english instructor final year made us do a type of a week. Its no longer that no longer uncomplicated in simple terms time ingesting. He even made us shade the pictures. =)