assonance

Example Sentences

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The poetry seems to perform hypnosis, the found rhymes and assonance and anaphora enacting an enchantment, a bewitchery; it seems to be giving subconscious advice.

From New York Times

The sprightly meter of the text abounds with exact rhymes and slant rhymes, as well as playful consonance, assonance and alliteration, carrying along the play’s stream-of-consciousness-styled progression of ideas.

From New York Times

After another Mercedes one-liner, he compliments her: “I like your consonance. I like your assonance too.”

From New York Times

My style has come a long way from Faulkner since, but I believe my ear for assonance and cadence goes back to reading him in my formative years.

From The Guardian

The fairy even hovers over Harbart’s suicide, and a similar lighter touch informs the prose, enlivened by assonance and alliteration.

From Washington Post