Assonance is when you have similar vowel sounds occurring
in a number of words. So it is sort of like rhyming, except it does not generally come
at the end of a word.
I think you can see examples of
assonance right at the start of the Prologue. For example, Shakespeare
writes
readability="0">Two households, both alike in
dignity,To me, the
"o" sound in "holds" is the same as the one in "both." I also think that the "i" sound
in "in" is the same as the second one in "dignity." So, to me, both of those are
examples of assonance.
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