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Keying in on a single sound, he runs a staggering series of rhyme variations ('middle,' 'little,' 'riddled,' 'middle,' 'diddly'), which he further builds upon with consonance ( d) and assonance ( i) and alliteration ( d and l). : 'Dead in the middle of little Italy / Little did we know that we riddled a middle man who didn't know diddly.'. Big Punisher's 'Twinz' includes this couplet. "Rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance combined often produce tongue-twisting linguistics.It may not be easy or useful to decide where one stops and another starts." (Tom McArthur, The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 1992) "The terms alliteration, assonance, and rhyme identify kinds of recurring sound that in practice are often freely mixed together.Any assonance that draws attention to itself is excessive." (John Earle, A Simple Grammar of English, 1898) Bright, Elements of English Versification, 1910) Thus, strike and grind, hat and man, 'rime' with each other according to the laws of assonance." (J.W. " Assonance, (or medial rime) is the agreement in the vowel sounds of two or more words, when the consonant sounds preceding and following these vowels do not agree.(William Blake, "Night." Songs of Innocence, 1789) "Strips of tinfoil winking like people"."A lanky, six-foot, pale boy with an active Adam's apple, ogling Lo and her orange-brown bare midriff, which I kissed five minutes later, Jack."."In the over-mastering loneliness of that moment, his whole life seemed to him nothing but vanity.".
SONANCE DEFINITION CODE
Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters, 1938) A droopy, soupy, sentimental exhibit, with melting eyes and a cooing voice and the most extraordinary views on such things as stars and rabbits." "I call her a ghastly girl because she was a ghastly girl."I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.".(John Hawkes, Death, Sleep, and the Traveler, 1974) "The setting sun was licking the hard bright machine like some great invisible beast on its knees.".(Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night") Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sightīlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. Old age should burn and rave at close of day "Do not go gentle into that good night,.(Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960) 'See me afterwards, young lady,' he said." "But at supper that evening when I asked him to pass the damn ham, please, Uncle Jack pointed at me.(Martin Luther King, Jr., address to the National Press Club on July 19, 1962) "The law may not change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.".Runnin with my money, son, go out with a blast." "Flash with a rash gimme my cash flickin' my ash."The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent and ragged, their legs drying in knots.".(James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916) " 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, dragging their long tails amid the rattling canisters."."He diagnosed Camilla's difficulty as indigestion, and locked himself in his cabin."."He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness and distance.".That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea." (advertising slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners, 1950s) (James Salter, "Am Strande von Tanger." Collected Stories. "A heart no bigger than an orange seed has ceased to beat."."If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got.
