Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms

"Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables: 'right/time,' 'sad/fact,' 'seven/elves'" (Hamilton 220).

"Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in two or more successive words or stressed syllables that contain different vowel sounds: 'had/hid,' 'wonder/wander,' 'haven/heaven'" (219).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/so_you_dont_make_an_assonance.html

Structural Irony

"Alliteration, is the repetition of sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables, is frequent in both poetry and prose" (Hamilton 217). Click here!

I was not sure what the meaning of "aphorism" was, so I looked it up. Sharon Hamilton in her Essential Literary Terms defines it as, "a terse statement on a serious subject" (20). http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/02/an_aphorism_and_chiasmus.html

aphorism
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2009/02/aphor-what.html

Epanalepsis? A Literary Term that Causes Seizures?
“I leave it to the reader to note the poetic and rhetorical details, the instances of assonance, alliteration, epanalepsis…” (McDonald 103).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/02/epanalepsis_a_literary_term_th.html

Cosmic Irony is Not Comical
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/cosmic-irony-is-not-comical.html

Do you mean apostrophe or apostrophe?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EllenEinsporn/2009/02/do_you_mean_apostrophe_or_apos.html

"Assonance...is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables" (Hamilton 220). It is very similar to alliteration, and hopefully can by found in my title.

It's a bit annoying that Hamilton doesn't always have the words you want to look up! For one reason or another, in class the word polypton was mentioned and I had not a clue what it meant.

Okay, Hamilton needs more words.

Analogy

Chiasmus
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/QuinnKerno/2009/02/a_chiasmus_is_c.html

Chiasmus
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/QuinnKerno/2009/02/a_chiasmus_is_c.html