• Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar phonemes in words or syllables that occur close together, either in terms of their vowel phonemes...
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  • poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm (via metre)...
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  • be regarded as the counterpart to the vowel-sound repetition known as assonance. Alliteration is a special case of consonance where the repeated consonant...
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  • used in academic or essay writing, as well as poetic devices such as assonance, metre, or rhyme scheme. Furthermore, narrative techniques are distinguished...
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  • Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades...
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    12697/smp.2021.8.2.05. ISSN 2346-691X. Shewan, A. (1925). "Alliteration and Assonance in Homer". Classical Philology. 20 (3): 193–209. doi:10.1086/360690. ISSN 0009-837X...
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  • beginning, which is unusual. The monotonous effect is reinforced by the assonance of dent ... dent and the alliteration of S ... S: ... Et / iam nox / umida...
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    knew them both called Connery by his middle name Sean, emphasising the assonance of the two names. Since then Connery preferred to use his middle name...
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    the aesthetic qualities of language, including musical devices such as assonance, alliteration, rhyme, and rhythm, and by being set in lines and verses...
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  • In literature and writing, stylistic devices are a variety of techniques used to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling. A figure of speech is any...
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    last long but sudden storms are short. — Shakespeare, Richard II 2.1 Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds across neighbouring words.[page needed]...
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  • quality of a discord) Dissonance in poetry is the deliberate avoidance of assonance, i.e. patterns of repeated vowel sounds. Dissonance in poetry is similar...
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    including puns, allusions, and metaphors, as well as alliteration and assonance, especially in its headlines and captions. This can make it difficult...
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  • imperfect match in sound. (green, fiend; one, thumb) assonance: matching vowels. (shake, hate) Assonance is sometimes referred to as slant rhymes, along with...
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  • written record of the phrase sea change. Through its use of rhyme, rhythm, assonance, and alliteration, the poem sounds like a spell. "Full fathom five" is...
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  • (29 August 1932 – 20 June 2023), best known as Paolo Zavallone (as an assonance with the surnames of singers Renato Carosone and Fred Buscaglione) and...
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    his liking towards Faber-Castell's pastels and pencils, aside from the assonance with his own name, and also because he was known as "il cantautore degli...
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  • half-dozen texts seem to be in verse, with a stress-based meter and vowel assonance at the end of the line. Tomb inscriptions include many epitaphs, which...
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  • The Song of Roland. In early works, each laisse was made up of (mono) assonanced verses, although the appearance of (mono) rhymed laisses was increasingly...
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    can be vaguely characterised as rhythmic resonance, alliteration, or assonance) and found that under that respect Voynichese is more similar to the Mandarin...
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  • thematically and lexically: While Surah 113 has end-rhyme, often focusing on the assonance of the q-root in the first four of the five end-words in the surah, Surah...
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  • The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase is a non-fiction book by Mark Forsyth published in 2013. The book explains classical...
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    incorporated such poetic devices as alliteration, onomatopoeia, synecdoche, and assonance. Furthermore, he uses personification, metaphor, and simile in his work...
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    for English and German (Types of rhyme: perfect rhymes, general rhymes, assonance, alliteration and pararehyme) Rhyme dictionary, Rhyme generator with perfect...
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  • his panoply. --- End-of-lines with assonance and rhymes are shown in italics; --- Line ends-and-starts with assonance are presented with underscores The...
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  • throughout. Pitchfork described "The Bounce" as Jay-Z showing 'extreme assonance'. In 2003, the track peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Bubbling...
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    the 3rd-century attestation of Basilia. By popular etymology, or simple assonance, the basilisk becomes closely associated with the city, used as heraldic...
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    evocative lyricism, complex rhyming schemes, and musical techniques like assonance and alliteration. His provocative songs are known for being poetically...
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    vocal shifts, as well as lyrics containing word play, alliteration, and assonance. Problems playing this file? See media help. Banks has said she admires...
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    illustrate his telling combination of onomatopoeia, alliteration, and assonance: The moan of doves in immemorial elms And murmuring of innumerable bees...
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