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Definition of Alliteration
Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same sound repeats in a group of words, such as the “b” sound in: “Bob brought the box of bricks to... read full definition
Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same sound repeats in a group of words, such as the “b” sound in: “Bob brought... read full definition
Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same sound repeats in a group of words, such as the... read full definition
Key Examples in The War of the Worlds
Book 1, Chapter 7: How I Reached Home
Explanation and Analysis—Noise and Silence:
Auditory imagery helps the fanciful story in The War of the Worlds seem more real. Symbolically, the juxtaposition of noise and silence signifies times of violence and peace. It also evokes the patterns of noise in the city. In Book 1, Chapter 7, the narrator describes the striking difference between the "frantic" city and a comparatively peaceful row of houses:
Over the Maybury arch a train, a billowing tumult of white, firelit smoke, and a long caterpillar of lighted windows, went flying south – clatter, clatter, clap, rap, and it had gone. A dim group of people talked in the gate of one of the houses in the pretty little row of gables that was called Oriental Terrace. It was all so real and so familiar. And that behind me! It was frantic, fantastic! Such things, I told myself, could not be.
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