Assonance
Assonance (ass'-o-nance) it the repetition or similarity of the same internal vowel sound in words of close proximity. “Beauty’s ensign yet / Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks.” Romeo and Juliet. 5.3.73
Quotes including the Figure of Speech Assonance
What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
Read the QuoteHoratio
What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
Barnardo
I have seen nothing.
Marcellus
Horatio says ’tis but our fantasy
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us.
Before my God, I might not this believe
Without the sensible and true avouch
Of mine own eyes.
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Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown
Read the QuoteAy, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown.
Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects.
I am not Adriana, nor thy wife.The time was onceHyperbaton when thou unurged wouldst vowAnastrophe
That never words were music to thine ear,
That never object pleasing in thine eye,
That never touch well welcome to thy hand,
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O, I am slain! If thou be merciful
Read the QuoteParis
O, I am slain! If thou be merciful,
Open the tomb; lay me with Juliet. He dies.
Romeo
In faith, I will.—Let me peruse this face.
Mercutio’s kinsman, noble County Paris!
What said my man when my betossèd soul
Did not attend him as we rode? I think
He told me Paris should have married Juliet.
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