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7 hours ago, Read It Aloud said:

Brandon, did you intend the assonance on "Spook" and "speculate" in Hero of Ages Part 4 chapter 46? #-)

 

He might have, he might not have. The more vague literary devices don't tend to get much attention outside of poetry.

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12 hours ago, Read It Aloud said:

Brandon, did you intend the assonance on "Spook" and "speculate" in Hero of Ages Part 4 chapter 46?

Would that even count as assonance though? Doesn't assonance, by definition, require the same vowel sound, with a consonant change?

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Example: How now, brown cow?

enPR: spo͞ok, IPA(key): /spuːk/

IPA(key): /ˈspɛkjuləˌtɪv/

spuːk =/= spɛk

Also, no consonant sounds were changed.

 

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I didn't look the definition up at the time but I just loosely remember assonance as sound and alliteration as letters ... 

Oxford suggests this for assonance...

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resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge ), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled ).

See how even their examples of consonant assonance don't strictly use the same letter consonant.. just sound 

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17 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

He might have, he might not have. The more vague literary devices don't tend to get much attention outside of poetry.

True... this is why I have enjoyed reading aloud as a parent. It slows you down and you get more out of it at various levels.  Tolkien LotR particularly...

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2 hours ago, Read It Aloud said:

True... this is why I have enjoyed reading aloud as a parent. It slows you down and you get more out of it at various levels.  Tolkien LotR particularly...

Please don't double post. In case you don;t know how to use Multi-quote (or other tools on the forum), maybe this will help:

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At the bottom left of a post you will see a "+" icon, a "Quote" link, and (your posts only) and Edit and Options tools. On the bottom right you will see an up arrow.

  • The Up Arrow is how you thank people or "like" a post
  • The "Quote" link is exactly that, when you click it the quote will be added to the reply at the bottom of the thread wherever the cursor is
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  • The + icon is multi-quote. As you read a thread, if you want to quote multiple items you click that for each post
    • As you click +, you should see a toaster pop-up on the bottom right of the browser window showing how many quotes you will have
    • They are added in the order you click the + icon, not in the original post order, so you can set the order of quotes for your reply
    • When you are ready to reply, click on the toaster pop-up and it will take you directly to the reply section and add the quotes automatically
  • Finally, you can also highlight a small section of a post and, when hovering over the highlit portion, click the "Quote" button that pops up.
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    • For example, you add a quote and realize there are no empty lines below it for you to type - so you can hit "enter" before the quote to make an empty line then when you hover over a quote you will see a 4-way arrow at the top-left that you can use to drag the quote up (or down)  and move the quote to before the empty line. . .
  • Use the Edit link to make changes to a completed post or add information to your post if it is the most recent (to avoid double posting)
    • Quote buttons will still send a quote to "Reply" if you have a post open for edit, but it is easy to cut/paste the quote to the Edit box
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  • Next to Edit you will also find an "options" dropbox, you can use this to hide your post if you want to remove it after posting
  • At the top of a post you will find "Report Post"
    • Use this if you do accidentally double-post (sometimes it's the browser or a slow link that causes a double post) - just leave a message that it was an accidental double post and the Mods can fix it. If it was the first post of a new thread that doubled, they usually can merge the threads if they both have answers, so all of the content is retained.

Hope that helps.

 

2 hours ago, Read It Aloud said:

See how even their examples of consonant assonance don't strictly use the same letter consonant.. just sound 

Sound (vice spelling) has always been key for this device - though I find it odd that Oxford includes consonants and Wiktionary does not. Here's the Wikipedia article, in case it sheds more light.

Edit: This may be the difference:

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However, assonance between consonants is generally called consonance in American usage

 

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