Which words create alliteration in the poem? wide-eyed clowns honk noses, toddlers shriek with glee, a rogue balloon stops with a pop, a big band blares its harmony.

The words that create alliteration in the poem are the following  ones: "A big band blares". Alliteration  is a stylistic device in which a number of words, have the same first consonant sound and occur close together in a series. In this case, the phoneme is the voiced bilabial plosive phoneme /b/.

Furthermore, alliteration creates a musical effect which makes the literary work pleasing to the ears and easy to remember it by heart.

to leave the reader thinking and wandering on their own. without a resolution we are clueless to what happens next, and why it does. it may even cause suspension with the reader.

explanation:

the sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).