Assonance
Definition:
Assonance refers to repetition of sounds produced by vowels within a sentence or phrase. In this regard assonance can be understood to be a kind of alliteration. What sets it apart from alliterations is that it is the repetition of only vowel sounds. Assonance is the opposite of consonance, which implies repetitive usage of consonant sounds.
Example:
“A long song”. (Where the ‘o’ sound is repeated in the last two words of the sentence)
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29 comments postedCan anyone help me out? Here are the lyrics to the great Cole Porter and Sinatra song. I need to find literary devices in this song and am at a blank. please help???
I've Got You Under My Skin
By Cole Porter
I've got you under my skin
I've got you deep in the heart of me
So deep in my heart
You're really a part of me
I've got you under my skin
I tried so not to give in
I said to myself this affair
Never will go so well
But why should I try to resist
When baby I know so well
That I've got you under my skin
I would sacrifice anything
Come what might
For the sake of having you near
In spite of a warning voice
That comes in the night
It repeats, repeats in my ear
Don't you know you old fool
You never can win
Use your mentality
Wake up to reality
But each time that I do
Just the thought of you
Makes me stop before I begin
'cause I've got you under my skin
I'd sacrifice anything
Come what might
For the sake of having you near
In spite of a warning voice
That comes in the night
It repeats and it yells in my ear
Don't you know you old fool
You never can win
Why not use your mentality
Wake up to reality
But each time that I do
Just the thought of you
Makes me stop before I begin
'cause I've got you under my skin
'cause I've got you under my skin
The poet has used Repetition in the following lines:
I've got you under my skin
I've got you deep in the heart of me
I would sacrifice anything
Come what might
He is so obsessed with his lover that it is conveyed through Repetition.
Both the lovers have become one and can never part, come what may!
That is the reason his love is so deep that he overlooks his conscience (warning voice) too which tells him that he will not win.
His love is too deep!
Ahh so "long bong" and "Sean John" are examples of this.
where is the repeated vowel in ''SEAN JOHN'' ?
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