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            • assonance
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            • Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close to each other - this also includes diphthongs. Like alliteration, it is the sound rather than the letter used that is important. The Poetry Archive
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            • The Greeks occasionally employed assonance for the sake of its aesthetic effect but took no pains to avoid it when no effect was intended, even when the repetition of sound seems to us displeasing. - Answers.com
            • While the bling of rhyme and meter are exciting, sometimes what a poem needs is the soft power of assonance. - The Fix
            • In more modern verse, stressed assonance has become the main literary device in modern rap, starting with gangsta rap like 2Pac in the 1990s, departing from rap's foundations in the 80's rapper like Slick Rick when rhyme at the end of each line was the cornerstone of poetic expression. - Wikipedia
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            • السجع
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            • Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in: “that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea” (William Butler Yeats). The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills. Rough similarity; approximate agreement. answers.com - by mhdmalki
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            • And round about the keel with faces pale, Dark faces pale against that rosy flame, The mild‐eyed melancholy Lotos‐eaters came. - answers.com by mhdmalki
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    • Bulgarian
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            • асонанс
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            • Асонансът е тропа, която се състои в повторение на гласни звукове в стих, главно ударени, което създава усещане за вътрешна рима в рамките на стихотворението. Wikipedia - by bibienne (X)
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            • “извива прешлени, заклещена/ в нежелано тяло от вехнещи цветове” – асонансът от “е” би трябвало да изобрази веригата на прешлените, без да се натрапва; - litclub by bibienne (X)
            • Един небезизвестен литературен критик в статия за Ботев твърдеше, че в стиха "Балкана пее хайдушка песен" не бил важен асонансът на звука "е", а само метафората, но в превода дори на сродния руски език "Балкан поет гайдуцкую песню" пропада част от художествения ефект именно поради липсата на този асонанс. - slovo.bg by bibienne (X)
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    • Indonesian
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            • asonansi
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            • The term 'asonansi' has been used in Indonesian literature for many years, for example in this puisi.net's article http://www.puisi.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=203&Itemid=53 or in here http://ignaskleden.blogdrive.com/archive/10.html or here http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:ijwHxVGu9PgJ:ictcenter-purwodadi.net/explorer/viewing/BSE/02.%2BSMP_MTs/23.%2BBindo%2BBahasa%2BKebanggaanku%2BVIII%2BSARWIJI/12%2BDafGrosar.pdf/+sastra+Indonesia+asonansi&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=uk&client=firefox-a Own research - by Lenah Susianty
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