The Bangle Sellers

Choose an Anaphora

• And cradled fair sons on her faithful breast

  And serves her household in fruitful pride

• Like the mountain mist

• Some are like fields of sunlit corn

• Silver and blue as the mountain mist

Choose a Metaphor

• Rainbow tinted circles of light

• Buds that dream

• New born leaves

• Flame of her marriage fire

Choose a metonymy

• And by him sported on the green

• Great victory

• Nay....Nay...my little girl.....qouth he

• They say it was a shocking sight

What is Metonymy?

• A thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated

• a writer wishes to describe some graphic or offensive event using milder imagery or phrasing

• When an author hints at the ending of or at an upcoming event in her story without fully divulging it

What is sibilance ?

• ’S’ sound is repeated

• ‘S’ is repeated

• Repetition of a single word winter no other words in between