USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

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Define Assonance
A
repetition of vowel sound in poetry
B
repetition of consonant sounds
C
the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Assonance: repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words (similar to alliteration). Example: An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king (Shelley, “Sonnet: England in 1819").

Detailed explanation-2: -Both terms are associated with repetition-assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds and consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds-but these terms (as they are typically used) differ in 3 important ways from the patterning of rhyme.

Detailed explanation-3: -POETIC DEVICES Share: Assonance is the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes. Examples of assonance across words include: crying time; hop-scotch; great flakes; between trees; and, the kind knight rides by.

Detailed explanation-4: -Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse. For example, “His tender heir might bear his memory” (William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 1”). The “eh” sound in “tender, ” “heir, ” “bear, ” and “memory” is an assonant sound.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to them, assonance is “relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vowels” and the “repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (as in stony and holy) used as an alternative to rhyme in verse”. It is also defined as the “resemblance of sound in words or syllables”.

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