Monday, May 2, 2011

Assonance

definition
The similarity between vowels.

Example
"Those images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea."
(W.B. Yeats, "Byzantium")

Significance
Assonance is in the rhyme, poems usually have assonance because they have the same sound/vowel at the end.

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