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  1. Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect. For example, “They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks,” PersonificatioRead more

    1. Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect. For example, “They are smiling o’er the silvery brooks,”
    2. Personification: A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. For example, “Of breeze and leaf are born.”

     

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  1. The poem "The Homes of England" by Felicia Hemans has conflicting emotions. The poem reveals that the wording points to a patriotic affirmation of the powerful English family. Numerous references to the church, a significant governmental institution, may be found throughout this discussion of the EnRead more

    The poem “The Homes of England” by Felicia Hemans has conflicting emotions. The poem reveals that the wording points to a patriotic affirmation of the powerful English family. Numerous references to the church, a significant governmental institution, may be found throughout this discussion of the English home. The absence of a strong male presence in this poem suggests an undercurrent of pessimism regarding the integrity of male support as a crucial component of the English household, especially in light of Hemans’ history of being abandoned by the male figures in her life, most notably her husband, Captain Alfred Hemans. 

     

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