A Brief Summary of Classical Rhetoric

-Alliteration: Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words. E.g. “Already American vessels had been searched, seized, and sunk.” (John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage) -Assonance: Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words. E.g. ................
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