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Literary notes about reverberate (AI summary)

The term "reverberate" provides a powerful auditory metaphor that enriches literary compositions, evoking images of both tangible sound and the lingering impact of past events. Writers employ it to describe the physical echo of blasts or chords—suggesting, for instance, the incessant pounding of distant cannon fire [1] or the sound bouncing through empty chambers [2]—while also using it to convey how ideas and emotions continue to resonate through time, as in declarations that echo across generations [3, 4]. Whether portraying nature’s response, such as mountains or vast landscapes resounding with calls for survival [5, 6], or emphasizing the lasting imprint of impassioned voices [7, 8, 9, 10], "reverberate" functions as an evocative tool that bridges the gap between the physical realm and the emotional, narrative undertones embedded within a text.
  1. Again the heavy roll as of cannon seemed to reverberate along the distant shore.
    — from Doing and Daring: A New Zealand Story by Eleanor Stredder
  2. I knocked, but no one answered, and the sound seemed to reverberate through empty chambers.
    — from The Alhambra by Washington Irving
  3. The call of love is heard here; the echoes to-day reverberate with the impassioned declarations of yesterday.
    — from The Place of Honeymoons by Harold MacGrath
  4. I did this thing—you shall hear it and it shall reverberate in your minds.
    — from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne
  5. The mountain and the strand Reverberate the cry: " Fly for your lives, oh, fly!
    — from Poems of American History
  6. From cities to caves of the forest he flew: There, raving, he howls his complaint to the wind; The mountains reverberate Love's last adieu!
    — from The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 1. Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
  7. This was the society to which Luther spoke, and its discontent was the sounding-board which made his words reverberate.
    — from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay
  8. I had not spoken very loudly, but the words seemed to reverberate in my mouth, as if to testify to the correctness of my explanation.
    — from A Columbus of Space by Garrett Putman Serviss
  9. God is not mocked!”—the words seemed to echo and reverberate around him, they seemed to be thundered in a voice of vengeance.
    — from The Sin That Was His by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
  10. Holiness, genius, and knowledge can reverberate through all society.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

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