Definition Assonance

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Definition Assonance

• The repetition of similar vowel sounds,
  especially in a line of poetry.

ooo, aaa, iii, uuu, eee
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Assonance Example

• Hear the mellow wedding bells
• The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe
• The sound of the e in mellow, wedding, and bells
  sounds the same, making it assonance.

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Assonance Example

• I do not like them Sam I am, I do not like green
  eggs and ham. (green eggs and ham, Dr. Seuss)

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Assonance Example

• nothing further then he uttered not a feather
  then he fluttered.
• The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe

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