assonance

Assonance and Consonance
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 * **__Assonance__** || Resemblance or correspondence of sound between two words or syllables

'...centuries //come// and //go// and are //no more// __//what of//__ it we **//should worry//**...' '...even //deafanddumb// thy //sons// **//acclaim//** __//your glorious//__ //**name**//...' 'He spoke. And //drank rapidly// a glass of water.' || || Recurrence of the same or like sounds; Agreement of sounds; pleasing combination of sounds.
 * __Examples:__** //man// and //hat//, //nation// and //traitor//, //penitent// and //reticence// are assonant couples.
 * From the Poem:** 'love you land of the pilgrims and //so forth// //oh//...'
 * **__Consonance__**

    Nature's first //green is gold,//   // Her hardest hue to hold. //
 * __Examples:__** //canonized//, //eternized// and //dissolute//, //resolute//;

  -Robert Frost, //Nothing Gold Can Stay//   '...//oh say can you see by the dawn's early my//...' '...//what of it we should worry//...' '...//by jingo by gee by gosh by gum//...' '...than these //heroic happy dead// who rushed //like lions to the roaring slaughter//...'  || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="wiki_link_new">Both assonance and consonance have a relation to alliteration, which is two or more words in a phrase sharing the same sound. Examples are phrases like "This Crazy Kraut is Crackers! He Crashed in here and Crassly tried to Kill us!"
 * From the Poem:** '...//love you land// of the pilgrims...'

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 * Citations ||
 * Mrs. Sunda’s Class. “Glossary of Poetic Devices.” __The Poet’s Bookshelf: Biographies of Famous Poets__. 17 Nov. 2008 http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/Sunda/poets/poetry2.htm. ||
 * The Oxford English Dictionary. __The Oxford English Dictionary__. 18 Nov. 2008 http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50013520?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=assonance&first=1&max_to_show=10. ||

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