LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ROMANTIC ERA ENGLISH LITERATURE
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Question
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The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free;We were the first that ever burstInto that silent sea. Which literary term describes the first two lines?
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assonance
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alliteration
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consonance
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end rhyme
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge In the following excerpt, sun/sea/sea, beat/breast/bassoon, red/rose, and merry/minstrelsy are examples of alliterative devices. Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.
Detailed explanation-2: -Alliteration – the repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry or speech. “Lonely and spectral and somber and still.” “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner uses such poetic devices such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, assonance and consonance.
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