If you would like to nominate Incidental Comics as a "Best Webcomic of 2011," you can go here to voice your support. No pressure!
Thanks to all my high school English teachers for providing the deeply ingrained knowledge behind this comic. And a very special thanks to my proofreaders at the Kansas City Star, who put up with my three consecutive misspellings of "Onomatopoeia."
And finally: English teachers and students, past and current - you can get a poster of this comic for your classroom or reading nook here.
14 comments:
Haha, poor cat is up to be personified. Lovely post!
Technically, alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. So your wonderous machine is actually an Assonance Alarm.
ssharp: From my understanding, alliteration is just the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words. Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds and consonance is repetition of consonant sounds in any part of the word. So maybe we're both right?
I nominated you. If my politics change from signing up with WaPo, I'll let you know.
KWDave
I think this is my favorite =)
To Grant and ssharp: assonance and consonance are two complementing components of alliteration. So yes, both right. (Or at least according to my senior year high school teacher)
Wonderfully and thoughtfully created. You have my vote
Dude, I wish these were on a t-shirt! I could buy… MAybe a poster will do for now
what, this stuff is good. like to good to be on a blog good. not like my retarded scribblings. I'm defo a fan
And the Rhyme Twister, helpful to all poets, which mangles the pronunciation of a word until it rhymes (sort of) with another word.
Thanks, everyone.
Ralph: I am guilty of the Rhyme Twister.
G:voted for Incidental.
J
In its full technicality, alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds (or the absence of a consonant sound) on the stressed syllable (not necessarily the first syllable) of a word. Spelling has nothing to do with it. Thus advance alliterates on V, and alert, alliteration, alarm on L. In Pope's line apt alliteration's artful aid, the words apt, art, aid all begin with different vowel sounds, but they alliterate anyway because they don't begin with a consonant. As Tolkien pointed out, old English art would alliterate just as well.
Personally, I like the onomatopoeia engine best. And yes, it's hard to spell; it's even hard to copy.
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when can play.
I'm rebloging, if you don't mind. I instantly liked your comics.
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