In this one line, assonance is the âurâ sound in âpurpleâ and âcurtainâ, consonance is the âsâ sound in âuncertainâ and ârustlingâ, and alliteration is shown in the âsâ sound at the beginning of silked and sad..
Some natural talents include  athletics, playing golf, writing, singing and pottery. Photography, science and gardening are also natural talents. Some people are naturally better than others at doing certain things, such as training dogs, storytelling or bookkeeping.
Most proposals made for the primary evolutionary function of natural competence as a part of natural bacterial transformation fall into three categories: (1) the selective advantage of genetic diversity; (2) DNA uptake as a source of nucleotides (DNA as âfoodâ); and (3) the selective advantage of a new strand of DNA to promote homologous recombinational repair of damaged DNA (DNA repair).