How to Use assonance in a Sentence
assonance
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But across the rest of the record, whether retelling or daydreaming, Hawke maintains a writerly attention to assonance and rhyme.
—Caitlin Wolper Phillips, Pitchfork, 4 May 2026
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Teeming with alliteration and assonance, and overflowing with cryptic references and metaphors…the two poems are like two peas from the same pod.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
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Teeming with alliteration and assonance, and overflowing with cryptic references and metaphors—known to scholars as kennings—the two poems are like two peas from the same pod.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
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There is a bopping, rhythmic assonance to Ginsberg’s unspooling lines, more incantation than poetry.
—Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
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Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
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