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Sound and Sense: Stylistic Devices (Lexical SD (Metaphor (When Ajax…
Sound and Sense: Stylistic Devices
Lexical SD
Simile
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, / The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Metaphor
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, / The line too labors, and the words move slow.
Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, / And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows.
Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Allusion
Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, / And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, / The line too labors, and the words move slow
Epithet
The smooth stream in smoother numbers
The hoarse, rough verse
Soft sound
Personification
The line too labors, and the words move slow;
Phonetic SD
Alliteration
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, / The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar;
Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, / And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, / The line too labors, and the words move slow;
The Sound must seem an Echo to the Sense
Onomatopoeia
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;
The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar;
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,
Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Syntactical SD
Parallelism
Author uses parallelism to show the readers the way the couplets function in lines 5-14, which is the section where the speaker demonstrates how his theory of sound and sense works.
Metre
Iamb
A heroic couplet is s a couple of lines (two, to be exact) that are rhymed. And they are in iambic pentameter (that's five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables. It sounds like ba-DUM ba-DUM ba-DUM ba-DUM ba-DUM).
Rhyme
Male rhyme
Full rhyme
Couplets – AA