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assonance

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assonance: see rhyme rhyme or rime, the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versification . Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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Second is the impact of sound itself upon a hearer, such as the use of guttural sounds, alliteration, and assonance.
Performance criticism: an emerging methodology in Second Testament ... by Rhoads, David / Biblical Theology Bulletin
Unfortunately, "purest profundity" is not a particularly egregious example of the author's ready recourse to arid alliteration, nor is "allergic/allegory/attacks" an isolated instance of acerbating assonance (please pardon the parody).
Literary Giants, Literary Catholics by Gallagher, Daniel B. / Catholic Insight
Because they are so monosyllabic, because they are semantically so self-sufficient, and because their shared initial consonant lends itself so well to alliteration, 'damp,' 'dark,' and 'deep' recapture the effect of medieval assonance and impart an insistently rhythmical and musical quality.
Tolkien in the land of Arthur: the Old Forest episode from The Lord ... by Zemmour, Corinne / Mythlore
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