Consonance is a literary device in which identical or similar consonants are repeated in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different. In the given excerpt, the consonant L is repeated several times:
Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash...
The opposite of consonance is assonance - the repetition of vowel sounds.
Alliteration is a literary device in which a series of words begins with the same sound (not the same letter!).
Anaphora is a literary device in which the same word (or a group of words) is repeated at the beginning of neighboring clauses.
“Don’t take the girl” by Craig Martin is a song not a poem, the genre is Country And it is awfully painful to listen to... but it’s a love song I guess?
In her short story "Everyday Use," Alice Walker takes up what is a recurrent theme in her work: the representation of the harmony as well as the conflicts and struggles within African- American culture.
