a hot stream from his chest, and becoming cold shakes his flanks with long gulps." Ovid also sometimes uses alliteration to mark significant moments in the story, as when he describes Echo's transformation. Here the alliteration of F F is accompanied by an assonance of OSS ISS: "Her voice remains, but they say her bones took on the appearance of a stone." When Scylla silently enters her father's bedroom and cuts off the lock of hair whose loss will destroy the city, the letter T is constantly repeated, the word "crime" and "fatal" are emphasised by alliteration of F, and are linked by the assonance of NT. Finally alliteration of S emphasises the word "robs": "Silently she enters her father's bedroom and (alas, dreadful deed!) the daughter robs the parent of his fatal lock" In the following lines Ovid describes the dangerous moment in the flight of Icarus when he flies too close to the sun. Here the consonants D and C of the word "daring" are echoed through two lines, before giving way to T T T: "when the boy began to take pleasure in audacious flight and abandoned his leader, and drawn by desire for the sky flew on a higher path." Emotional speech Alliteration and assonance also often add emphasis to expressions of emotion, such as anger, scorn, grief, panic, and terror, as in the following lines from book 2 of the Aeneid, where the ghost of Hector orders Aeneas to flee. Here alliteration is combined with assonance of and : "The enemy holds the walls! Troy is falling from its high rooftops. Enough has been given to out fatherland and to Priam; if Pergama were able to be defended by a right hand, it would have been defended even by this one!" In book 12 of the Aeneid Turnus's sister cries these words, alternating the M and T of and (both words meaning "fear"), and combining it with assonance of ē and em: "Do not terrify me, who am already scared!" Aeneas taunts his enemy with alliteration of T C S and assonance of VER VA VAR VA AR A as follows: "Turn yourself into any shape and draw together whatever you can in courage or skill; choose to fly on wings into the stars on high or bury yourself enclosed in the hollow earth!" In his reply, Turnus combines alliteration of T F D with