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The verse from Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven: "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain."

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What are examples of sibilance?

Six sizzling sausagesSing a Song of SixpenceShe sells sea shells on the sea shore


What is the literary term for the repeated s sound?

It is called "sibilance."


What is the name for alliteration that begins with an s?

The alliteration of the "S" (or -iss) sound is sibilance (Smashing, Slashing, Slugging)


What is sibilance in poetry?

Sibilance is a literary device characterized by the repetition of the "s" sound in words close to each other. It adds musicality and rhythm to poetry, creating a hissing or a soft, whispering effect. Sibilance is often used to convey a sense of flow, emphasis, or to create a specific mood.


What does the word sibilance mean?

Sibilant means making a hissing noise, particularly related to speech (e.g. making the noises of 's', 'sh', 'z'). Therefore sibilance means the quality or state of being sibilant.


What is the effect on the reader sibilance?

Sibilance creates a soft, hissing sound that can evoke a sense of whispering or secrecy. It often adds a sense of tension or drama to the writing and can help to create a specific mood or atmosphere for the reader.


What is the difference between sibilant and alliteration of s?

no difference. sibilance is a subtype of alliteration.


Language techniques used in Waltzing Matilda?

ballad, assonance, aliteration, and sibilance


What is alliteration when you use the letter s?

Allitertion using an "s" is called sibilance.


How is sibilance effective in poems?

It depends on the context however, from recently studying the poem Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3 1802, I have found there is a line containing sibilance; 'A sight so touching in its majesty:' This is one of the most important lines in the poem and its importance has been emphasised by the sibilance. Here it helps the line to flow and makes it easy to read. The 'so touching' makes the line slightly hyperbolic and creates an effect of desperation in that Wordsworth is trying to stress the importance of his ideas.However in another poem that i recently studied it had quite the opposite effect. In the poem Medusa, sibilance is used continuously throughout the poem to create the snake like creature that she eventually turns into. The sibilance represents the hissing of the snake and therefore the poem allows you to hear the creature without bluntly stating what she becomes. Sibilance in this context is used to gradually build up the jealousy and the other themes throughout the poem..hope that helped a little.


What poetic techniques used in Rupert Brooke's poem The Soldier for instants is there similies metaphors etc?

sibilance


What was the literry elements in stop the sun?

One literary technique is sibilance the repeated usage of 's' like sounds.

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