High up in Heav'n, with songs to hymne his Throne
A rhetorical figure consisting in the use of a series of words in the same case or with the same inflexion.
Milton uses the Greek technique homoeoprophoron, which is very similar to the literary technique alliteration. with this phrase, Satan is insulting God's angels in heaven by stating that they practice flattery and not war.
Milton uses the Greek technique homoeoprophoron, which is very similar to the literary technique alliteration. with this phrase, Satan is insulting God's angels in heaven by stating that they practice flattery and not war.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, September 2014. Web. 22 October 2014
Brigham Young University. Silva Rhetoricae. CCA, 2007. Web. 23 Oct. 1014.
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