| She thinks constantly in metaphors, in assonance, in pretty words that don't mean anything, in ugly words that mean everything. |
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| These picture puzzles depended, like puns, on the assonance of words that have different meanings. |
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| All that assonance and alliteration, though not perfectly obvious, come to hand fairly readily. |
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| Lincoln fell in love with metaphors and cadences, assonance and alliteration. |
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| This is not to say that most poets do not utilize such tools as metaphor, simile, assonance, and other poetic techniques. |
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| The phrase's blend of alliteration and assonance shows a lyricist at the top of his game. |
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| He used most of the classic verse forms, but his distinctive contribution was his deployment of assonance, internal rhymes, and half-rhymes. |
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| There's even some assonance in those words that make them all the more compatible. |
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| They must have an obvious, and indeed a kind of danceable, rhythm, and they will normally make use of assonance and alliteration. |
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| First, it has the qualities of rhythm, alliteration, and assonance verging on rhyme that we might expect of a memorable turn of phrase. |
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| Most rap still follows the initial formula of rhymed couplets that casually mix full rhyme with assonance. |
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| Strange is masterful in her ability to capture and juxtapose the audible qualities of language alongside the literary tools of assonance and alliteration. |
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| Here, the assonance rhyme between the two principal terms sets the stage for a compelling comparison made on a genuinely imaginative and rather unexpected basis. |
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| From French folk-song tradition comes the use of enumeration, as well as assonance. |
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| I realize that theories are the shield which rises up and conceals the reality and the union and the assonance between two spirits. |
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| The freedom of art, of the poet to act or speak, is controlled by the surface beauty of specific juxtapositions and diversions created by the melody or assonance of language. |
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| The repetitions that ring through these lines, and the internal rhyme and assonance that mark them seem to extend, to prolong this last moment before nightfall. |
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| Walsh's metrical translations mirrored the assonance of the originals. |
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| The journey here is as much in the rhythmic ricochet of assonance, produced by colliding syntax, as it is in the actual varying terrain the words themselves represent. |
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| I will have to consult the rest of the jury but I can venture a guess that tail rhymes are not allowed but assonance and consonance are fair game. |
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| She relies heavily on assonance and shows a fondness for verbing nouns. |
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| As Max crumbles, his thoughts and memories seem physically to swell within him, expressed in sentences that are ever expanding with another clause, another adjective, another assonance being added to the travelling wave. |
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| Cloete's poetry is dominated by end rhyme-not half-rhyme or assonance, but relentless full rhyme. |
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| They not only make a perfect rhyme, but through consonance and assonance, they resonate in our imagination. |
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| Max Fish and Snow are wed by more than their iambic assonance. |
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| There were also the rude verses improvised at harvest festivals and weddings and liturgical formulas, whose scanty remains show alliteration and assonance. |
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| Later criticism, though divided, has tended in the contrary direction, and has based its strongest negative judgment on the consideration of rhymes, assonance and vocabulary. |
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