Stylistic Devices
Dainas feature several stylistic devices to ensure euphony. Common devices use repetition, these include alliteration – repetition of similar consonants in stressed, anaphora and epiphora - the use of same words at, respectively, beginning or end of lines, repetition of a word, combination of words or previous line, or starting new sentence with word that has same root as last word of previous sentence. Comparisons and other symbolic devices are also found their range including straightforward comparisons, epithets, metaphores, synecdoches, allegories, personifications and parallelisms where seemingly unrelated concepts are used likening events from nature to human life and different social classes.
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