"What are Assonance and Consonance?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- What do assonance and consonance mean? What are some examples of assonance and consonance in poetry? Professor Raymond Malewitz answers these questions using examples from Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" and Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach."
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The short video is designed to help high school and college English students to not only identify consonance and assonance in literature, film, and visual art but also to analyze their purposes and effects. The video is sponsored by the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University. For more discussions of literary topics and essay writing tips, please subscribe to the free SWLF UA-cam Channel or visit liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/
0:00 Assonance and Consonance Defined
3:06 Assonance and Consonance Example #1
5:17 Assonance and Consonance Example #2
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Assonance and consonance both terms are associated with repetition- assonance is repetition of vowel sounds and consonance is repetition of consonant sound - but these terms ad they typically used differ in 3 important ways from pattering of rhyme . For example Jan likes to eat spam from can . Notice repetition of short vowel sound . For example Shakespeare his tender heir might bear his memory. Eh sound in tender , heir , bear memory assonance sound. Consonance is literally device that occurs when two words have same consonant sound following different vowel sounds. For example same and home have same and home have same m sound , but vowel sounds before are different. First long a and second long o . Example consonance hickory dickory dock . Another examples of poets hear mellow wedding bells by Edgar Allen Poe. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.
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If you liked this video, let us know by dropping us a comment, asking a question, or sharing your favorite examples of assonance and consonance in your favorite poems or stories. You could also share some instances of assonance or consonance in the Bishop or Arnold poems that you discovered but were not covered in the lesson. Doing so will help to establish this comment section as a rich digital learning environment. Thanks for reading, everybody!
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Wow. Thank you. From now upon I won't mess up with assonance and consonance and rhyme and repetition
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Love this! I have a poetic devices exam tomorrow, and this cleared up assonance and consonance! Thank you ;)
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A nice video on soundscape in poetry.
An example of consonance and assonance: in The Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock there is this short refrain:
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
Consonance: the m's sounds
Assonance: the o's ounds
Together they create a solemn sound, most of the already bit sober notes of the O dampened with the M, as if you hear pelgrims going to and fro in a church, mumbling. om om om. It fits both the devotation of the women and of course, of prufrock himself too.
As for an example in a poem you already mentioned: dover beach
There is in the first half a repeat of the uplifting sounds of ai.
Fair, air are obvious due to the rhyme, but you also have straits and spray. Due to that word spray, I think those ai sounds make the reader think of the foam flinging upwards. You don't have those uplifting sounds in the second half of the poem anymore. It is all n-sounds. I think the beginning is in two halves here: first is the sea rising, second it falling again.
This was fun! You gave me a new tool to analyze and make poems, thanks!
What a great way to start out the conversation, Pieter! Thanks so much! Here's another example from Prufrock: "the eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase." Here, the f-sounds repeat and the hard-u sound repeats in a memorable (and highly formulated) phrase. Thanks again for keeping the conversation going!
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I'm writing poems and this helps me a lot.
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Gleam and is gone. Consonance mimics the light being on and off.
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'Of a day I had rued'. Here which one is used, assonance or consonance ??
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I guess its consonance. Am i right ?
Nice work, Sunita! What consonant sounds are being repeated here?
@@SWLF 'd' sound in day, had and rued.
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i just realized emin3m is an assonance master
Ha! He's also pretty great at alliteration (a closely related term). Check out our video on that term if you are interested. Thanks for keeping the conversation going, wu fan!
Is assonance in the Arabic language better?
We're not sure, @AliAli-h4r2n. Is assonance common in Arabic poetry?
Is alliteration a type of consonance?
It is indeed! You can find more information about alliteration in our "What is Alliteration?" video on our UA-cam page. Thanks for the question, Aurora!
Are the words happier and far assonance?? 😊
Interesting question, Sasha. Could you give us the context of where these words occur in a sentence? And which repeating vowel sounds were you thinking here?
@@SWLF hello sir thankyou for the reply, the words appear in the poem called 'stick together familes' by Edgar Albert East
the line from the poem is-
The stick together families are happier by far
@@Sashaa22215 Got it. We'd say that you could certainly make the case for consonance (or even internal rhyme) in the repetition of -r sounds in together, happier, and far. What do you think?
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Hmmm, do you mean a caesura, Lord Ronn? Or some other kind of pause?
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