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 YouTube Channel or visit https://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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