"Assonance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... do not mean that rhymes were not known before the days of Al-Islam, but that the Arabs popularized assonance and consonance in ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton
... echoers in England and America) began to cry out that the world make obeisance to Moussorgsky on that score, there was no wonder that those whose eagerness to enjoy led them to absorb too much information should ask how this marvellous psychical assonance between word and tone was to be conveyed to their unfortunate sense and feeling after the original Russian word had been transmogrified into French or English. In New York the opera, which we know to be saturated in some respects with Muscovitism, or Slavicism, and which we have every reason to ...
— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel |
