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Some examples of impactful language from George Ella Lyon's poem "Where I'm From."

Techniques Examples
Striking Language "the eye my father shut to keep his sight""a sift of lost faces to drift beneath my dreams"
Alliteration "drift beneath my dreams" "from Perk up! and Pipe down!""from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride"
Assonance "to drift beneath my dreams""the know-it-alls and the pass-it-ons"
Consonance "a sift of lost faces""ten verses I can say myself""leaf-fall from the family tree"

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