Where can you identify alliteration and assonance in this poem?
firefighter's prayer by david cochrane
our training took place on stairs

in a brick-built tower leading nowhere

with glassless windows issuing false smoke

the concrete crumbling to fine dust

with the incessant passage of rubber booted feet

sweltering equipment to the scene of some imagined fire.

hours over years spent on such stairs

the action of climbing them so grained into my mind

that the flutter of fear seems superficial by comparison.


and this tuesday morning

in my heavy gear and helmet

stairs lined by the subdued and stunned

elegant in morning pressed clothes and fresh deodorant

eyes eloquent in their despair for me

they shuffle down as i lumber sweating up

each stair the rhythm of my mantra

ah jesus,

ah jesus,

ah jesus,

ah

Which statement about the structure of these lines is true? romeo and juliet

The best persuasive essay topics a.are the ones that are popular,that many other people are writing about b.are ones you feel strongly about and that can be backed up by outside sources c.are one you feel strongly about,whether or not there is outside evidence for support

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile