Phonetic Figures of Speech I like to

Phonetic Figures of Speech

I like to see it lap the Miles—— And lick the Valleys up—— And Stop to feed it Self at Tanks—— Around then—— prodigious Step—— Around a Pile of Mountains—— And Supercilious peer—— In Shanties—— by the Sides of Road——

1. Definition of Alliteration • 1. 1 Alliteration ( also known as ‘head rhyme’ or ‘initial rhyme’), deriving from Latin-- adliteram, is a literary or rhetorical stylistic device that consists in repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in close succession. 指一 组词、一句话或一行诗中，彼此靠近的两个或两个以上的词 中，其开头的音节具有相同的字母或声音，主要是辅音字母。 • e. g. Promise, problem and provision happy and healthy, jump for joy, fall flat

2. Classification • • 2. 1 2. 2 2. 3 2. 4 the repetition of the initial vowels the repetition of the initial consonants clusters the repetition of the initial syllables

1. 2 Attention: Alliteration is mainly made of consonants, but the consonants which don't pronunce their own sound can't consist alliteration. e. g. Physical pain; an honest hostess, psychological power.

2. 1 the repetition of the initial vowels • E. g. As many as 15, 000 doctors new rely on cosmetics surgery for a fair chunk(大块) of their income – and they are allowed to advertise aggressively.

2. 2 the repetition of the initial consonants • E. g. To many parents, the three Gs – gays, guns and gangs – have replaced the three Rs as benchmarks(基准) of school life.

2. 3 the repetition of the initial consonants clusters • Spare the rod, and spoil the child. 孩子不打不成器。 • Plenty is no plague. 多多益善。 • Everything in her house is always spick and span. 她的房子总是收拾得非常整洁。

2. 4 the repetition of the initial syllables • If the consonants followed by the same vowels make initial letters of several adjacent word have one or several syllables, it can also make alliteration. • e. g. Time and tide wait for no man. 岁月不等人。 • Tightening its lusts and luxuries. 牢牢控制着它的贪欲和奢侈。

• Enhance the sense of language e. g. Nothing is as beautiful as spring when weeds, in wheels, schoot long and love and lush… 什么也美不过春—车轮间茂盛可爱的草儿把长长的身子舒展…… • Visualization e. g. China’s cities, after decades of bolted doors and barred windows, are suddenly being opened to sweeping changes. 中国的城市经过几十年闭关锁国之后，突然开放，全面改革了。 • Apply colors to a drawing the atmosphere e. g. To chillon’s donjon damp and deep, where wild waves mount eternal yard…… 锡隆有地牢，地湿又低洼，浊浪冲石壁，惊涛拍崖沙。

Proverb Poetry Prose Advertisement Title …… (tongue twisters)

Alliteration in proverb • • Live and learn. Love me little and love long. Practice makes perfect. Money makes the mare go. Dumb dogs are dangerous. Willful waste makes woeful want. Death pays all debts.

Alliteration in poetry The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. ----S. T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Alliteration in prose • The flakes were falling thick and hard now, pouring past the window, a waterfall of mystery. ( Jonathan Nicholas: First Snow) 现在雪下得又密又大，好似神秘的瀑布在窗外瓢泊。 • Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain. ( Winston Churchill)

Alliteration in advertisement • Sea, sun, sand, seclusion---and Spain. • Don’t let your eyelids let you down. • “wonder where the yellow went”

Alliteration in title • • • Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility The Winds of War Hellfire from the Heaven (Newspaper heading) Starlight on Skyline, Galaxy of Glamour

I like to see it lap the Miles I like to see it lap the Mi les—— And lick the Va lleys up—— And stop to f eed it self at Tanks—— Around then——prod ig ious step—— Around a Pi le of Mountains—— And superc ili ous p eer—— In Sha nties——by the sides of Road——

1、Definition of Assonance Ø Assonance is the repetition or resemblance of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of a sequence of words, preceded and followed by different consonants. e. g. late and make fish and chips a deep green stream

Attention： Ø Assonance also refers to the likeness of sound in a series of words. e. g. fair and square a deep green stream begun and done

2、Function: • It creats a musical rhythm for a particular effect of euphony and convey various sensory impression. e. g. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and me. ——Thomas Gray

• Assonance can make a sentence or a line of poetry bonding into a harmonious one. It can strengthen the musical and rhythmical sence. e. g. First thrive, and then wife. 先发达后娶妻。 Haste makes waste. 欲速则不达。

• • • Poetry Prose Proverb Advertisement News report/heading Speech

Assonance in the poetry: Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breath and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one , while my pretty one, sleeps. ——Tennyson 《Sweet and Low》

Assonance in proverbs: 1、Time and tide wait for no man. 2、Sadness and gladness succeed each other. 3、Man proposes, God disposes. 4、Well begun is half done.

Assonance in advertisement: • Let us help you extend yourself. (advertisement for a physical exercise program) • Could anything ever replace the taste of good old grape or apple juice? How about raspberry? (advertisement for Westvale Raspberry, a kind of juice)

Assonance in news: • Women make Policy Not Coffee • Large factories in China wish to be given a freer hand in the right to hire and fire.

I like to see it lap the Miles —— And lick the Valleys up —— And stop to feed itself at Tank s—— Around then——prodigious step—— Around a Pile of Mountains —— And supercilious peer—— In Shanties——by the sides of Road——

Definition of Consonance l Origin: Latin, meaning to “to harmonize” l Definition: It’s the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity. Contrary to assonance, consonance to the repetition of the final and identical consonants whose preceding vowels are different. sing——rang, won——ran odds and ends, first and last, a stroke of luck

Function • Consonance is often employed together with other figures of speech. For example, Women: Don't Agonize, Organize Farm Not Arms

Conclusion • Embellish, emphasize or clearly expression. • Make language more colorful, more forceful, or more eplicit. • Make communication more efficient and more effective.

第二组： 组长 ：杨晓贤 组员：林婉佳、徐冰莉、马必容