| These picture puzzles depended, like puns, on the assonance of words that have different meanings. |
| The phrase's blend of alliteration and assonance shows a lyricist at the top of his game. |
| All that assonance and alliteration, though not perfectly obvious, come to hand fairly readily. |
| Lincoln fell in love with metaphors and cadences, assonance and alliteration. |
| This is not to say that most poets do not utilize such tools as metaphor, simile, assonance, and other poetic techniques. |
| He used most of the classic verse forms, but his distinctive contribution was his deployment of assonance, internal rhymes, and half-rhymes. |
