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"I "Love Summer more than I hate Winter"

When we winter,
we'll waste warmth
with wafting wind
within willowy wurleys.


I'm not sure I get your point.

Les

Ain't no such (English poetic) term as consonation. The example is alliteration. Consonance is something else again.

Hugh,

You're right, I know the the word, but for some reason I put down consonation.
Consonance is the very first poetic term I discovered (After "Rhyming").
(feeling knda bashful right now)

Les

You got the point. I was just asking for people to respond with short, one or two line example of their own. I thought of the subject and wrote that line
.....hey, wait a minute! OK. I've got an idea.

(new thread)

"I "Love Summer more than I hate Winter"

Hugh,

The English language is VERY flexible.
Can't one define consonation as the act of using consonance?

"I "Love Summer more than I hate Winter"

Sure, but how is anyone to know what definition you have invented? For humorous examples, do a seach for 'malapropism', from the play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

"Sure, if I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs."
- Mrs. Malaprop

We misappropriate what we mean when we malaprop our lives away. Malicious misalignments miss the mainstream. Know what I mean?

Les

dans emulue eceque il y as des virus ??

Dunno.
Stephen?

"I "Love Summer more than I hate Winter"

Non, là n'en sont aucun

"Language is a virus from outer space."
--Wm. S. Burroughs

Trying to find a common thread in all these replies, but it escapes me. What are we discussing here anyway? Just wondering...

Poet, consonance...which is a poetic term meaning similar consonant sounds.

Flurim's post is a misdirected one. He was trying to find another website which specializes in internet software for European webmasters.

Some of the responses are tongue in cheek, inside joke, responses to fellow forum members who know what we mean.

Know what I mean? If not, you're probably on the wrong board.


Les

nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Of course one can. Remember this conversation in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"?

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scronful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master--that's all."

Hi, I'm trying to find a poet I once read back in high school speech class (Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas - I graduate in 1993), but cannot now remember her name.
She wrote several fun consonant-styled poems, one about flowers being killed my a lawn mower, another about numbers and their shapes and the way their names are said...
If anyone could help me find this poet, I would GREATly appreciate it.

Sorry - I graduatED in 1993...
heahhea

Lisa,

Do you remember any lines or phrases? As an alternative, you might try and contact your teachers, to ask them.

pam