ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mnemonic, Alliteration, Assonance
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Sound and sound patterns: euphony and cacophony, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia. Cacophony (or dissonance): language which is perceived as harsh, rough, and unmusical , jonathan swift"s a description of a city shower , filled with disgusting descriptions of garbage, corpses, and such. Internal alliteration: alliteration which occurs in the middle of words, recoil and jarring sound , infernal door, and on their hinges gate . Assonance: the repetition of identical or similar vowels in a sequence of words (abrams, out, out (kennedy) Onomatopoeia: a word or combination of words whose sound seems to duplicate the sound it denotes , hiss, buzz, rattle, bang, be careful, as not a lot of poems have said onomatopoeia. Rhyme: repetition, in the rhyming words of the last stressed vowel and of all speech sounds following that vowel (abrams 347, always includes repetition linked to variation. Eye rhyme: words whose endings are spelled alike.
