assonance
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“The assonance of it, the rhyme of it feels really good. So maybe having an emphasis more on the sound of the words than the meaning is actually part of what makes this genre compelling.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2023
As the book’s translator notes, Shree writes in English fluently but chooses to pen her novel in Hindi to preserve the language’s dhwani: its unique vibration and resonance, often through wordplay, alliteration and assonance.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023
The lyrics of the pop music we secretly listened to, for instance, were “soft”: “Assonance is assonance but a rhyme is a rhyme. You can’t approximate!”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017
Kodak Black is a sleepy-sounding vocalist who swallows his words, a tactic that obscures his enthusiasm for twisty assonance.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2016
“For instance, The beer is never dear near here, dear,’ is unfortunate, even as an assonance.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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