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rhyme
rhyme or rime, the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versification . Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans. With the decline of the classical quantitative meters and the substitution of accentual meters,... Read more
versification
versification principles of metrical practice in poetry. In different literatures poetic form is achieved in various ways; usually, however, a definite and predictable pattern is evident in the language. In ancient Greek poetry, the pattern was in the quantity of the syllables, i.e., the duration o... Read more
POETRY
POETRY Literary composition in verse form. It is often the case that to discuss a piece of work as poetry implies evaluating its quality, while to discuss it as verse relates to technique used in creating it. The terms, however, are blurred: the phrase bad poetry may refer to technique and the phras... Read more

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ASSONANCE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ASSONANCE [Stress: ‘ASS-o-nanss...but this distinction is now rare. Assonance has been described as both a kind of...alternative to rhyme. The terms ALLITERATION , assonance , and RHYME identify kinds of recurring...
assonance
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature assonance, the correspondence or rhyming of one word with another in the accented and following vowels, but not in the consonants, as e.g. in Old French versification.
rhyme
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the Middle Ages, end rhyme (rhyme at the end of a line), assonance (repetition of related vowel sounds), and alliteration...introduction of blank verse in the 16th cent. Alliteration and assonance were both called rhyme by early writers, but today two words...
Bells, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...in 1849. The four irregular stanzas, of varied meter, depict onomatopoetically, by means of reiterated alliteration, assonance, and phonetic imitation, four ways in which the sounds of bells influence moods: the merry tinkle of sleigh bells; the...
PHONAESTHESIA
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...and do not necessarily apply to all the words of a certain type: sleep and sleeve, dish and sash do not normally have the same nuances as slime and splash . Compare ALLITERATION , ASSONANCE , ECHOISM , ONOMATOPOEIA , ROOT-CREATION .
ALLITERATION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...lines from Langland run: ‘In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne, / I shope me in shroudes, as I a shepe were’ (shope dressed, shepe ship). See ASSONANCE , ENGLISH LITERATURE , REDUPLICATION , REPETITION .
ECHOISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...echoes and inverts Eliot's own lines ‘This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper’ ( The Hollow Men , 1925). Compare ALLUSION, ASSONANCE , ONOMATOPOEIA . See -ISM , ROOT-CREATION , STYLE .
MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...being various’. He used most of the classic verse forms, but his distinctive contribution was his deployment of assonance, internal rhymes, and half rhymes, and ballad-like repetitions that he had absorbed from the Irishry of his childhood...
Quintus Ennius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and clumsy beside Virgil's, often being heavily spondaic, ignoring caesuras and elisions, and carrying alliteration and assonance to extremes. Nevertheless, they can at times rise to a rugged and powerful dignity. Euripides was a favorite model for...
Layamon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and little of the old poetic vocabulary. The Brut contains some true rhyme, some imperfect rhyme, and a good deal of assonance. Layamon was plainly on the road that led to the more sophisticated metrical experiments of Geoffrey Chaucer. Yet this early...

Dictionary entries related to "assonance"

assonance
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology assonance XVIII. — F., f. L. assonāre (of Echo) answer to, f. AS- + sonāre SOUND3 .
Sense/Nonsense
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...jokes in general, which is "pleasure in nonsense" (p. 125), a relic of the pleasure of playing with words for their assonance alone, independent of meaning. Children, like adults, give themselves up to this pleasure, fully aware of its absurdity...
seguidilla
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...The participants interpolate vocal passages called coplas , which are in short lines of alternately 5 and 7 syllables, with assonance (agreement of vowels) rather than rhyme. Castanets, and usually guitar, are used for acc. Many regional variants.
Purposive Idea
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...at the time, ideas that thus appeared "by chance" could only be brought together based on formal criteria (synonymy, assonance, and so on) or chance (temporal coincidence, for example). It is remarkable that Freud, who elsewhere made extensive...
stitch in time saves nine, a
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable stitch in time saves nine, a proverbial saying, early 18th century; meaning that a small but timely intervention will ensure against the need for much more substantial repair later. The saying was originally a couplet, with nine chosen as the number for assonance.
Koran
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...varying length, each sūra being composed of a number of āyas (normally translated as verses because assonance is involved, although the Koran is a prose work). The first revelation on Lailat al-Qadr , the Night of Power, is commemorated...

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rhetorical
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...analogy anaphora antanagoge anthimeria antimetabole antiphrasis antithesis apophasis aporia aposiopesis apostrophe appositive assonance asyndeton catachresis chiasmus climax conduplicatio diacope dirimens copulatio distinctio dystmesis ellipsis enthymeme enumeratio...

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The assonance syndrome.
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...gradually balmier and balmier--" "Well, Narnia and balmier don't rhyme, to begin with," said Lucy. "It's an assonance, "said Eustace. "Don't ask him what an assy-thingummy is, "said Edmund. "He's only longing to be asked...
Books: Would you check out the assonance on that! It ain't over till the rap lady sings: Kevin Le Gendre finds that the First Ladies of hip-hop no longer have to choose between incarnating male fantasies and neutralising their femininity
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/17/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...with the huge challenge of proving she has as much balls as the next man who'll probably be checking her ass before her assonance. Does she play the game Barbie Doll style (Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown) using her corpo-real assets to put the canine critters...
The data fetishist's guide to rime coherence.
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...for instance, the assonance is st- and the rime...triconsonantal cluster assonances in English monosyllables...words, (2) parsed by assonance and rime, from which...come to be known as assonance-rime analysis, to...of various related assonances ("Style Stands Still...
Working the Field.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...pairs of initial consonants, while the assonance buried in the middle of each participle...horse's as well as the poet's poise. Assonance argues. It quietly sets itself against...Plumly is our contemporary poet of assonance, master of the soft, echoing, more...
Spatial representations, distortions and alterations in the graphic and artistic production of brain-damaged patients and of famous artists
Magazine article from: Functional Neurology; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...different historical periods, may evoke "assonances" in the mind of a neurologist. Indeed...efforts of researchers to understand these assonances has led to an open debate and, in this...accessible only to them" (1). The assonances between artists' figurative representations...
Europe's tradesmen & the music of speech.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 6/9/2006; 700+ words ; ...about alliteration, consonance, and assonance, the literary devices at issue here...end consonants, in close proximity. Assonance is the usual term for the repetition...but "Eden" and "grief" make for assonance, too. I'm reaching back to the classic...
Translating repetition. (Aspects of Translation)
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...rhyme. Other types of rhyme (alliteration, for example, or assonance) involve identity in other segments of the words in question...of] in scharfen, schossen and Sterne. There is further assonance in the words alle, ab, damit, damit, where the [a] sound...
BEST SIMILES COMPARE FAMILIAR OBJECTS, HAVE A NICE CADENCE.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/16/1997; 700+ words ; ...that goes, dum-DUM, dum-DUM). We also get a touch of assonance in the long-o's. Thus we try, ``was colder than a...objectionable noun / adjective, but it preserves the long-o assonance and the iambic beat. Moreover, ``a Fargo stethoscope...
Why not `colder than a Chicago stethoscope'?
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/16/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...that goes, dum-dum, dum-dum). We also get a touch of assonance in the long-o's. Thus we try, "was colder than a stethoscope...objectionable noun/adjective, but it preserves the long-o assonance and the iambic beat. Moreover, "a Fargo stethoscope" is...
The Poets' Dante.(Dante Alighieri)
Magazine article from: Partisan Review; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...sometimes many lines in length, each line ending with the same assonance. The result, in English, struck me as nothing more than...translations of La Chanson de Roland which have aimed at producing assonance patterns like those in the original, but the results have...