Saturday, April 23, 2011

Assonance

Definition


The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are chose together to create rhyming is called assonance.

Example
Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!

Significance
Assonance is a poetic devices that can create rhyming which can add music, beat or rhythm into poems. Assonance also can affect the mood and tone of poems.

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