Alliteration vs consonance vs assonance

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming

For the Czech folk band, see Asonance.

Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar phonemes in words or syllables that occur close together, either in terms of their vowel phonemes (e.g., lean green meat) or their consonant phonemes (e.g., Kip keeps capes ).[1] However, in American usage, assonance exclusively refers to this phenomenon when affecting vowels, whereas, when affecting consonants, it is generally called consonance.[2] The two types are often combined, as between the words six and switch, which contain the same vowel and similar consonants.

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  • If there is repetition of the same vowel or some similar vowels in literary work, especially in stressed syllables, this may be termed "vowel harmony" in poetry[3] (though linguists have a different definition of "vowel harmony").

    A special case of assonance is rhyme, in which the endings of words (generally beginning with the vowel sound of the last stressed syllable) are identical—as in fog and log or history and mystery.

    Vocalic assonance is an important element in verse.[4] Assonance occurs more often in verse than in prose; it is used in English-language poetry and is particularly important in Old French, Spanish, and the Celtic languages.

    Examples

    English poetry is rich with examples of assonance and/or consonance:

    That solitude which suits abstruser musings

    —&#;Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight"

    on a proud round cloud in white high night

    —&#;E.

    E. Cummings, if a cheerfulest Elephantangelchild should sit

    His tender heir might bear his memory

    —&#;William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 1"

    It also occurs in prose:

    Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished in low circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds.

    —&#;James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    The Willow-Wren was twittering his thin little song, hidden himself in the dark selvedge of the river bank.

    —&#;Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

    Hip hop relies on assonance:

    Some vodka that'll jumpstart my heart quicker than a shock when I get shocked at the hospital by the doctor when I'm not cooperating when I'm rocking the table when he's operating

    —&#;Eminem, "Without Me"

    Dead in the middle of little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddly.

    —&#;Big Pun, "Twinz"

    It is also heard in other forms of popular music:

    I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless

    —&#;Thin Lizzy, "With Love"

    I never seen so many Dominican women with cinnamon tans

    —&#;Will Smith, "Miami"

    Dot myI's with eyebrow pencils, close myeyelids, hide myeyes.

    Examples of assonance and consonance for kids Examples of Assonance in Literature. Assonance is an effective literary device. Here are some examples of assonance and how it adds to the artistic quality of well-known literary works: Example 1: Look, Stranger (W.H. Auden) Here at the small field’s ending pause. Where the chalk wall falls to the foam and it’s tall ledges. Oppose the pluck.

    I'll be idle in myideals. Think of nothing else but I

    —&#;Keaton Henson, "Small Hands"

    Assonance is common in proverbs:

    The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

    The early bird catches the worm.

    Total assonance is found in a number of Pashto proverbs from Afghanistan:

    • La zra na bal zra ta laar shta. "From one heart to another there is a way."[5]
    • Kha ghar lwar day pa sar laar lary. "Even if a mountain is very high, there is a path to the top."[6]

    This poetic device can be found in the first line of Homer's Iliad: Mênin áeide, theá, Pēlēïádeō Akhilêos (Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος).

    Another example is Dies irae (probably by Thomas of Celano):

    Dies iræ, dies illa
    Solvet sæclum in favilla,
    Teste David cum Sibylla.

    In Dante's Divine Comedy there are some stanzas with such repetition.

    così l’animo mio, ch’ancor fuggiva,
    si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo
    che non lasciò già mai persona viva.

    In the following strophe from Hart Crane's "To Brooklyn Bridge" there is the vowel [i] in many stressed syllables.

    How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest
    The seagull’s wings shall dip and pivot him,
    Shedding white rings of tumult, building high
    Over the chained bay waters Liberty—[7]

    All rhymes in a strophe can be linked by vowel harmony into one assonance.

    Such stanzas can be found in Italian or Portuguese poetry, in works by Giambattista Marino and Luís Vaz de Camões:

    Giunto a quel passo il giovinetto Alcide,
    che fa capo al camin di nostra vita,
    trovò dubbio e sospeso infra due guide
    una via, che’ due strade era partita.
    Facile e piana la sinistra ei vide,
    di delizie e piacer tutta fiorita;
    l’altra vestìa l’ispide balze alpine
    di duri sassi e di pungenti spine.[8]

    This is ottava rima[9] (abababcc),[10] a very popular form in the Renaissance that was first used in epic poems.

    Examples of assonance and consonance One of the best examples that incorporate both assonance and consonance is the line from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”: “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain. ” In this line, the “ur” sound is repeated, creating assonance, and the “s” and “n” sounds are repeated, creating consonance.

    As armas e os barões assinalados,
    Que da ocidental praia Lusitana,
    Por mares nunca de antes navegados,
    Passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
    Em perigos e guerras esforçados,
    Mais do que prometia a força humana,
    E entre gente remota edificaram
    Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram;[11]

    There are many examples of vowel harmony in French,[12] Czech,[13] and Polish[14] poetry.

    See also

    References

    1. ^Chambers 21st Century Dictionary ().
    2. ^Merriam-Webster consonance.
    3. ^Assonance at Enciclopaedia Britannica
    4. ^"Khurana, Ajeet "Assonance and Consonance" Outstanding Writing". Archived from the original on Retrieved
    5. ^p.

      16, Zellem, Edward. Mataluna: Pashto Proverbs. Cultures Direct.

    6. ^p.

      Examples of assonance Consonance, alliteration, and assonance are all literary devices that utilize sound as a means of enhancing the emphasis, attention, significance, and importance of words.. This creates both artistic and/or rhetorical effect in works of poetry, prose, or spee.

      66, Zellem, Edward. Mataluna: Pashto Proverbs. Cultures Direct.

    7. ^Hart Crane, from "The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge" at Poetry Foundation.
    8. ^Giambattista Marino, Adone, Canto II, stanza 1 (in Italian).
    9. ^Ottava rima at Encyclopædia Britannica.
    10. ^Ottava rima at Poetry Foundation.

    11. ^Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, Canto Primeiro, stanza 1 (in Portuguese).
    12. ^Roy Lewis, On Reading French Verse. A Study of Poetic Form, Oxford , pp.

      Examples and Definition of Assonance - Literary Devices

      Assonance and consonance are poetic devices used to create a musical quality in writing. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words, while consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds at the end or middle of words. Both add a lyrical flair to prose or poetry, enriching the reader’s experience.

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    13. ^Wiktor J. Darasz, Harmonia wokaliczna w poezji Vladimíra Holana, Almanach Czeski, (in Polish).
    14. ^Wiktor Jarosław Darasz, Mały przewodnik po wierszu polskim, Kraków , pp. – (in Polish).

    External links

    Further reading

    • Gosse, Edmund William (). "Assonance"&#;.

      Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.&#;2 (11th&#;ed.).

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    • Roman Jakobson, Jennifer Rowsell, Kate Pahl (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies, p.
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