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The repetition of vowel sounds, I guess, is Assonance.
Spokesman: Romney Not "Equating Or Comparing Anyone" When Holding "Obama Osama" Sign 2009
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Assonance and consonance are the stuff of Scarry's prose.
Archive 2009-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Assonance and consonance are the stuff of Scarry's prose.
All that is great and luminous and beautiful Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Assonance is the resemblance of sound between syllables in nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels (as in sonnet, porridge), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled).
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Assonance, consonance, and surprise has been my prosodic mantra for a long time.
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Assonance, consonance, and surprise has been my prosodic mantra for a long time.
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Tabulation of Alliteration, Assonance, etc. [8] 149 3.
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976
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[62] For a tabulation of Alliteration, Assonance, etc., cf. Appendix, pp. 149 ff.
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976
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Assonance, like alliteration and consonance, occurs in modern verse sporadically, almost accidentally, but with great frequency in all languages.
The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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Assonance, later rhyme, could not but prove a welcome, an all but necessary, means of articulating or sectioning the somewhat spineless flow of sonorous syllables.
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