Friday, February 8, 2013

Elegy

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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