assonance

How To Use assonance In A Sentence

• She relies heavily on assonance and shows a fondness for verbing nouns.
• In this example, the two last syllables have the assonance; although this is not invariable, it sometimes falling on the antepenultima and the final syllable. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2
• He explains terms such as assonance and consonance through the lyrics of Keats and Eminem ... GotPoetry.com News
• The kind of assonance avoided was identity of final sounded consonants in successive words, _e. g._, lane, vine. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
• All that assonance and alliteration, though not perfectly obvious, come to hand fairly readily.
• In all of these cases, the deft repetitions and modulations of consonants and vowels with their subtle assonance and consonance compete for attention with the lines' actual content.
• The chapter might be omitted without any injury to the action of the poem, and besides the metre, style, conceits and images differ from the general tenour of the poem; and that continual repetition of the same sounds at the end of each hemistich which is not exactly rime, but assonance, reveals the artificial labour of a more recent age.” Ramayana. English
• Even when they employ new or traditional auditory forms, they often tone down the musical effects by deliberately flattening the rhythms, avoiding end-stopped lines, and eliminating noticeable alliteration or assonance.
• She is masterful in her ability to capture and juxtapose the audible qualities of language alongside the literary tools of assonance and alliteration.
• The couplets are linked by the repetition of their first lines and the assonance occurring in ‘flag’ and ‘map.’