|  His
soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through
the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last
end, upon all the living
and the dead.
There is a lot of alliteration [and assonance] here.
It is created by the repetition of the letters 's', 'f', 'l',
'd'
His soul swooned slowly
as he heard the snow
falling faintly
through the universe and faintly falling,
like the descent
of their last end,
upon all the living
and the dead.
[Bonus points if you spotted that it was from James Joyce's story
'The Dead'.]
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