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    Personification and Alliteration

    Personification is perfect for poetry.
    Alliteration stands jelous aside her.
    "What does a scanner see? he asked himself.
    I mean, really see?
    Into the head? Down into the heart?
    see into me—into us—clearly or darkly?
    "

    Philip K. Dick (A Scanner Darkly)

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    You devil. Heheheh...







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    jealous beside her?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Delta40 View Post
    jealous beside her?
    Do you not get it?
    The first line talks of personification but is using alliteration.
    The second line talks of Alliteration though personifies both 'alliteration' and 'personification'.
    "What does a scanner see? he asked himself.
    I mean, really see?
    Into the head? Down into the heart?
    see into me—into us—clearly or darkly?
    "

    Philip K. Dick (A Scanner Darkly)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Junglord View Post
    Do you not get it?
    The first line talks of personification but is using alliteration.
    The second line talks of Alliteration though personifies both 'alliteration' and 'personification'.
    I think Delta40 is alluding to your variant spelling of 'jealous'. Do yourself a favour & download a decent browser with a good spellchecker. It works for me, I can type faster than I write, although I tend to rely on a spellchecker to find the typos that inevitably result from that LOL!.
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