Thursday, April 2, 2015

Give examples of sound devices and connect to tone. We walked through a high hallway into a bright rose-colored space, fragilely bound into the...

In addition to the superb answer above, you will find:


Alliteration: "We walked"; "high hallway"; "breeze blew"; "blown back"


Sibilance: "must have stood for a few moments listening"


Assonance: "up as though upon an anchored balloon"


Consonance: "whip and snap"


Euphony: "bright rose-colored space, fragilely bound"


Cacophony: "whip and snap of the curtains and the groan"


In addition, Fitzgerald make much use of the progressive tense (-ing endings of verbs).  Progressive tenses are useful for showing that an action was, is or will be ongoing during a period in the past, present or future):



twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling-and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea


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