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  • Do not go gentle into that good night.

    "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)
  • I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

    Running   Stars   Knives  
  • God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.

    Leaving   Novelists   Use  
    Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books
  • Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

    Use   Cadence   Kind  
    "Can Grande's Castle". Book by Amy Lowell, 1921.
  • I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)
  • I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.

    Mean   Looks   Ends  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

    Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with 'hurler' (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book 'Le Horla', inspired by mental distraction.

    Book   Titles   Inspired  
  • Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

    Spring   Vowels   Soil  
    1965 Bygones.
  • Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

    Source: www.scribd.com
  • Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

    Echoes   Lines   Favors  
    Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”
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