What are four uses of alliteration in this paragraph. and explain how each reinforces the meaning.?

Question

" He who shall muse on these moldering ruins, and deeply ponder this darkling life, must brood on old legends of battle and bloodshed, and heavy in the mood that troubles his heart:

I have no idea?

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Answer 1

1) Muse, moldering

2) Deeply, darkling

3) Brood, battle, bloodshed

4) Heavy, heart

Alliteration is like rhyme--it helps us remember those certain phrases, and helps us link them in our minds. The author wants to reinforce in 3 (brood, battle, bloodshed) the bloodiness of war, and the fact that the person is brooding on it--not on just war, but on the pain and suffering war inflicts upon humans. This bit of alliteration is quickly followed by "heavy" and "heart," emphasizing that these thoughts trouble him, and make his heart heavy (ie. make him grieve.) The first two uses are emphasizing that the person is musing about these things--on something that is moldering (which means something that is disintigrating), and that he is musing deeply, and his thoughts are dark, just as he believes that life--that the position of human beings--is darkening ('darkling')

Answer 2

i think the alliteration was muse, moldering, must, and mood but not sure about the reinforcing part

Answer 3

alliteration is a type of repetition which creates reinforcement.

Many of the words being alliterated are similar in mood.

Like: brood, battle and bloodshed.  All 3 can represent deep sorrow.

Answer 4

Well, in the first section, you have the words 'muse' and 'moldering', which merely reinforces the verb and the adjective and begins the quote on a dark note, as the word 'muse' is often given a more negative connotation and as 'moldering' means that the ruins are disintegrating, therefore, making it negative or almost sad as well.

Next, you have 'deeply' and 'darkling', which are and adverb and adjective and the use of the two words bring you even DEEPER into the DARK feeling of the quote.

After that, you have 'brood', 'battle', and 'bloodshed', which are all negative and spin the reader deeper into the gloom of the quote.

Finally, you have 'heavy' and 'heart' as the quote comes to a close. This leaves the reader with a similar feeling as the others, and an emphatic reader may actually physically feel the effects of the alliteration subconsciously as his/her own heart feels weighted down.

The way I understand the meaning is that there is a ruins somewhere that has such a gloomy, depressing feel about it that any passersby is forced to stop and think of what battles may have ensued and leave the place of ruin with a heavy heart. The alliteration merely adds to the feel and reinforces the more troubling words, causing them to stand out to the reader and helps the author reach and affect his reader's hearts through a sly trick of the trade.

Answer 5

alliteration is used to grab and hold to reader's attention

the alliteration is:

muse/moldering

deeply/darkling

brood/battle/bloodshed