The electronic keyboard provides good assonance to many instruments. From LearnThat.org.
The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds with different consonants is called assonance: en Español. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
He explains terms such as assonance and consonance through the lyrics of Keats and Eminem. From Wordnik.com. [GotPoetry.com News] Reference
She gave sound, not merely assonance back to words. From Wordnik.com. [Dame Edith] Reference
Throw in some assonance and onomatopoeia for a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [August « 2009 «] Reference
But then, all season long, he's been a big assonance. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Puff's Revenge] Reference
Methi Muthia, didn't the assonance tickle you Ashwini?. From Wordnik.com. [Teatime snack - Methi Muthia] Reference
If you have a question regarding assonance or consonance, press 1. From Wordnik.com. [A Session With My Poetry Coach] Reference
The Snow Queen Deceit breaking the alliteration and going for assonance. From Wordnik.com. [Search for the Snow Queen’s Title] Reference
Alliteration, assonance, rhymes terminal and medial, all rebound in lines that seem. From Wordnik.com. [Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound] Reference
See also assonance for the repetition of vowel sounds and consonance for consonants. From Wordnik.com. [Denyse O'Leary and the Revolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
And Prophet Shambles, blessings and peace be upon you, darling, you are one big assonance. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Samoa: "The Lord Frickin' Provides!"] Reference
The tones are familiar ones, compact of assonance, alliteration, and their metered even keel. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
She catches herself saying: and then there were two/one who believed in the assonance of you. From Wordnik.com. [justinker Diary Entry] Reference
Marrying the two words is easy because of the alliteration, assonance, and consonance they share. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Romm: Obama Nails the Winning Message: "Honor Comes with Honesty." But Does He Know How to Win with It?] Reference
I think I'm thinking of more of a "literary term" like assonance or pathetic fallacy or something. From Wordnik.com. [Looking For A Word] Reference
Málik is in Rajaz Muzdawij, the hemistichs rhyming and the assonance being confined to the couplet. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The style of the passage is nearly as peculiar as its thought, it abounds in assonance and alliteration. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
Poetry that depends on sound elements -- rhyme, rhythm, assonance, &c. -- tends toward untranslatability. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: POETRY TRANSLATION IN CANADA.] Reference
Catullus is best in Latin, of course, for the assonance and rhythm, but these translations are hilarioius!. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
Great Regulars: Robert Frost asserted that Tennyson's track of "effects in assonance" was "the wrong track.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
July 25, 2006, 8: 35 am sports gambling says: sports gambling trolls assonance: repetition! listened previous. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Lessons of ‘Anonymous Lawyer’:] Reference
With the teacher's back to them, he writes on his notebook and pushes it in her direction - what's assonance?. From Wordnik.com. [justinker Diary Entry] Reference
You see things to which you were previously blind; you uncover a play on words, assonance, alliteration, analogies. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Snider: Rote Memorization: Overrated or Underrated?] Reference
Spanish poetry, when it rhymes, tends to rhyme by assonance: that is, the vowels, not the consonants, match line to line. From Wordnik.com. [Amor y romanticismo] Reference
Imitating Haloga models, it gave more weight to alliteration and assonance, less to rhyme, than verse did in the capital. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
Some of the most basic elements of poetry refer to sound — alliteration, rhyme, meter, assonance, consonance, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Reading : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
But assonance is more realistic, with the incomplete agreement of rhyme a more accurate reflection of the state of things. From Wordnik.com. [justinker Diary Entry] Reference
The assonance mostly attempts monorhyme: in two tetrastichs it is aa + ba, and it does not disdain alternates, ab + ab + ab. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The existence of speech melody and the tonalities of rime, assonance, and alliteration suggest an analogy between verse and music. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Whatever be the meaning of the name, the words put into Eve's mouth (v. 1) probably are not an etymology, but an assonance (Driver). From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
They invariably use one of the memorable rhetorical figures of speech -- alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyming, metaphor, or pun. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Romm: Rebranding Slick Sarah, the Make-Believe Maverick] Reference
Your reviewer goes on to say that "journey and pity are trochaic nouns which have a weak assonance in common but no overlap of meaning.". From Wordnik.com. [Journey and Pity] Reference
Wilce packs her sentences with adjectives and adverbs, parallelism and paradox; the words themselves chime with alliteration and assonance. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
It shows his affinity for American country music, finding poignancy in banal, even hokey situations, clever word play and use of assonance. From Wordnik.com. [Lean Left » Blog Archive » I Do Not Believe In the Theory Of Evolution; I Do Not Believe in Global Warming] Reference
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