[lit-ideas] Re: a niggling question
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On 25-Feb-09, at 7:14 PM, Paul Stone wrote:
... I want to know if there's a word ... for the act of 'almost
rhyming' but not quite.
Assonance. I learned that while reading C.S. Lewis' _The Voyage of
the Dawn Treader_ (in the Narnia series).
From _The New Oxford American Dictionary_ (which came installed on my
MacBook):
"assonance |ˈas(ə)nəns| noun: in poetry, the repetition of the sound
of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough
to each other for the echo to be discernible ..."
... the line I'm referring to is the often repeated "no not just for
some, but for everyone".
In this case the 'echo' is the sound of the vowel 'o' in 'some' and
everyone'.
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
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