How To Use Assonance In A Sentence
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She relies heavily on assonance and shows a fondness for verbing nouns.
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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
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He explains terms such as assonance and consonance through the lyrics of Keats and Eminem ...
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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.
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All that assonance and alliteration, though not perfectly obvious, come to hand fairly readily.
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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.
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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
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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.
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She is masterful in her ability to capture and juxtapose the audible qualities of language alongside the literary tools of assonance and alliteration.
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The couplets are linked by the repetition of their first lines and the assonance occurring in ‘flag’ and ‘map.’
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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.
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Lincoln fell in love with metaphors and cadences, assonance and alliteration.
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Just look at (and, preferably, listen to) his use of assonance - repeated vowel sounds throughout a section.
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In Chapter II attention is focused on Dante's use of consonance and assonance to create specific effects leading to a sort of ‘musical vision’.
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The phrase's blend of alliteration (l's, d's and soft t's) and assonance (short i's and long a's) shows a lyricist at the top of his game.
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By the way Lance, I applaud your use of alliteration and assonance; "Teutonic turd peddler" is so much more poetic than "German shit merchant.
10,000 BC IS A CRITICAL DARLING
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rhyme? half-rhyme? assonance? consonance? onomatopoeia?
Archive 2008-09-01
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She thinks constantly in metaphors, in assonance, in pretty words that don't mean anything, in ugly words that mean everything.
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First, it has the qualities of rhythm, alliteration, and assonance verging on rhyme that we might expect of a memorable turn of phrase.
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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.
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Walsh's metrical translations mirrored the assonance of the originals.
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The journey here is as much in the rhythmic ricochet of assonance, produced by colliding syntax, as it is in the actual varying terrain the words themselves represent.
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Most rap still follows the initial formula of rhymed couplets that casually mix full rhyme with assonance.
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But the two verbs nuach and nacham have a kind of assonance, they sound somewhat alike, and Lamech played upon this similarity in a perfectly permissible pun.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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These picture puzzles depended, like puns, on the assonance of words that have different meanings.
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The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds with different consonants is called assonance: en Español
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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.
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On "Irish Bulls" [VERBATIM II, 1, 1] and the German bull, by an odd coincidence of assonance, the German word for this linguistic extravagance is Verbalhornen.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4
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Here, the assonance rhyme between the two principal terms sets the stage for a compelling comparison made on a genuinely imaginative and rather unexpected basis.
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The remaining stanzas discard the scheme of triple rhymes in favour of rhymed couplets, while the last two lines use assonance instead of rhyme and are, moreover, catalectic:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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He used most of the classic verse forms, but his distinctive contribution was his deployment of assonance, internal rhymes, and half-rhymes.
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This is not to say that most poets do not utilize such tools as metaphor, simile, assonance, and other poetic techniques.
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There is a recurrence of the e-a assonance at the ends of lines, but in no definable pattern.
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There is always an element of subjectivity in a judgement about alliteration as indeed also about other effects, such as assonance and rhyme.
On alliterating, or not
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Most rap still follows the initial formula of rhymed couplets that casually mix full rhyme with assonance.
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chordal assonance in modern music
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She catalogues these, in addition to consonance and assonance, as pararhyme (nine-noon), unstressed (given-heaven), augmented
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
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These examples have a military marching rhythm to them, but it is possible, with alliteration, assonance and heavier syllables in those unstressed positions, to give the verses a more ambiguous feel, so that they seem to go back and forth more readily between a straight iambic (or trochaic) and a dipodic sound — such as the Hardy poem Steve discusses in his post.
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Lincoln fell in love with metaphors and cadences, assonance and alliteration.
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Are there any phonological patterns of rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc?
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The freedom of art, of the poet to act or speak, is controlled by the surface beauty of specific juxtapositions and diversions created by the melody or assonance of language.
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Thus the totality of intervals is thought of as a graduated structure leading from unitas via the perfect and imperfect assonances to the dissonances and nonharmonic rela - tionships.
MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART
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Walsh's metrical translations mirrored the assonance of the originals.
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First he had not sufficient command of English to translate with the necessary laconism and assonance: secondly in his day British Philistinism was too rampant to permit a literal translation.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Add to this a method of montage favouring ellipses and assonances and one is well on the way to experiencing that giddiness which Jean Narboni has described as the essence of the ‘Godard effect’.
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There's even some assonance in those words that make them all the more compatible.
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When the initial letters are vowels, the gimmick is called assonance.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Assonance, in its stricter sense, means the repetition of an accented vowel (blackness -- dances), while the succeeding sounds vary, but the terms "assonance" and "consonance" are often employed loosely to signify harmonious effects of tone-color within a line or group of lines.
A Study of Poetry
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Theand easy language of assonance word easy to read, make people pleased, the meaning colorful.
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Josquin also paid homage to Duke Ercole in one of his Mass settings; it is built round an eight-note melody derived from the syllables ‘Her-cu-les Dux Fer-ra-ri-e’ ‘Ercole, Duke of Ferrara’, which are translated by assonance of vowels into the solmization syllables re–ut–re–ut–re–la–mi–re.
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They must have an obvious, and indeed a kind of danceable, rhythm, and they will normally make use of assonance and alliteration.
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The duplicated word _ena-ena_, taken in connection with _Ha-ena_ in the previous verse, is a capital instance of a form of assonance, or nonterminal rhyme, much favored and occasionally used by Hawaiian poets of the middle period.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
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Strange is masterful in her ability to capture and juxtapose the audible qualities of language alongside the literary tools of assonance and alliteration.
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In solitary quiet, readers can hear sounds at their best, cherishing in the mouth all the possibilities of consonance and assonance, long vowel and short, as well as the dance of syntax which is rhythm.