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Consonance is the effect of similar speech-sounds being near each other. Some forms of consonance can be singled out, which are: alliteration, where initial sounds matter; sibilance, where 's' and 'z' sounds are enhanced; and assonance, where the vowel-sounds of words are in concert.
A two-word phrase describing an object in metaphorical terms.
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Each term a different poet is in residence here, talking about poetry with anyone who wants to join in the conversation.
Comic Verse
I'm troubled, as you can tell by my introduction, about comic verse. Comic verse gets bad press because rigid notions of comedy foreground throwaway poems. Surely the best comedy is when the poem surprises us into laughter rather than setting up t... >
