Assonance Quotes

• Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Spring, Vowels, Soil

  1965 Bygones.

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• Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

  Amy Lowell

  Use, Cadence, Kind

  "Can Grande's Castle". Book by Amy Lowell, 1921.

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• Espero que sea una tonta... eso es lo mejor que puede ser una chica en este mundo, una hermosa tonta.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspiradora, Hermosa, Chica

  El Gran Gatsby cap. 1 (1925)

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• Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mind, Alliteration, Corridors

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No te vayas suavemente en esa buena noche.

  Dylan Thomas

  Tatuaje, Buenas noches, Buenas noches

  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

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• I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.

  Anna Viaje

  Mean, Looks, Ends

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Echoes, Lines, Favors

  Margaret Atwood (2006). "Waltzing Again: Conversaciones nuevas y seleccionadas con Margaret Atwood".

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• God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.

  Lauren F. Ganadora

  Leaving, Novelists, Use

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

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• Yo no... como el ritmo, la asonancia, todas esas cosas. Te dejas llevar por tus nervios. Si alguien te persigue por la calle con un cuchillo simplemente corres, no te das la vuelta y gritas, '¡Déjalo! Fui una estrella del atletismo en Mineola Prep.'

  Frank O'Hara

  Correr, Estrellas, Cuchillos

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• Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

  Erich Fromm

  Ends, Ambiguous, Clear

  Fuente: www.scribd.com

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• I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with 'hurler' (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book 'Le Horla', inspired by mental distraction.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Book, Titles, Inspired

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