Elegy In literature, an elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
Your elegy should include 4 of the following...
alliteration- initial sounds/syllables are repeated
assonance- vowel sounds that rhyme
consonance- consonant sounds that rhyme
allusion- a reference to a well-known historical work/event
metonymy/synecdoche- substitutes a word or phrase that relates to a thing, for the thing itself/a part that is substituted for a whole.
10 lines minimum.
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