Thursday 28 April 2011

Assonance ♥




Definition: the repetition of the sound of a vowel that create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.

Example:

And frightful a nightfall folded rueful a day

Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone,

And lives at last were washing away:

To the shrouds they took,—they shook in the hurling and horrible airs.

Is out with it! Oh,

We lash with the best or worst

Word last! How a lush-kept plush-capped sloe

Will, mouthed to flesh-burst,

Gush!—flush the man, the being with it, sour or sweet,

Brim, in a flash, full!—Hither then, last or first

Significance: It makes the poem sound funnier with the repetition vowels. It usually makes the reader laugh and entertains the reader.


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