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- noun Plural form of
assonance .
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Examples
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From this point on all poets have this experience the sounds of the poem, the assonances and consonances, the rhythms, images dissolving into each other, carried the poem forward.
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From this point on all poets have this experience the sounds of the poem, the assonances and consonances, the rhythms, images dissolving into each other, carried the poem forward.
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From this point on all poets have this experience the sounds of the poem, the assonances and consonances, the rhythms, images dissolving into each other, carried the poem forward.
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Sensuous rhythms and rich assonances of diction governs this voice whose role resembles that of a Greek choir, as it speaks of the odyssey, evoking moral lessons while keeping action in constant flux and suspense.
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This isn't to say that tonal music, the perfect C chord range with its logical assonances and dissonances, can't move us physically.
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This isn't to say that tonal music, the perfect C chord range with its logical assonances and dissonances, can't move us physically.
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English prosody I value for its assonances, its rich range of grates, its rhythmic and connotative clashes... that is, the kind of English sonics I tend to love would fit startlingly well with shkrobius's early negative reactions.
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Then followed a discipline exacted, most drastically, by the fineness of his own ear — the weighing of cadences, the consideration of pauses; the effect of repetitions and consonances and assonances — all this was part of the duty of a writer who wishes to put a complex meaning fully and completely before his reader.
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Oh! You think that because I pass my life trying to make harmonious phrases, in avoiding assonances, that I too have not my little judgments on the things of this world?
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Goncourt is very happy when he has seized upon a word in the street that he can stick in a book, and I am well satisfied when I have written a page without assonances or repetitions.
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