Find examples of alliteration and consonance in each poem in the collection. Avarice, the good life, money

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Answer:

Find the examples below.

Explanation:

Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant sounds in a group of words. Consonance is the repetition of consonant letters in a group of closely connected words. Examples of alliteration and consonance in the listed poems are shown below.

Avarice by Yusef Komunyakaa

On a sill crisscrossing the house

In the spidery crawlspace.

She’d weigh a peach in her hands

Till it rotted. At sixteen,

Sill, spidery, she'd, sixteen are all examples of alliteration.

The Good Life by Tracy K. Smith

When some people talk about money

They speak as if it were a mysterious lover

Who went out to buy milk and never

Came back, and it makes me nostalgic

Money, mysterious, milk, and makes are all examples of alliteration.

Money by Philip Larkin

So I look at others, what they do with theirs:    

They certainly don’t keep it upstairs.

By now they’ve a second house and car and wife:

Clearly money has something to do with life

Theirs, upstairs, wife and life are examples of consonance.