地道英语写作教程(上册)-unit 5.pptVIP

Keys to exercises 1. open. 2. open. 3. open. 4. open. 5. open. Assonance From the Latin “sound”, assonance, also known as “medial rhyme” or “inexact rhyme”, is the refrain of?vowel sounds? to create internal?rhyming?within?phrases?or?sentences. In other words, “Assonance is the agreement in the vowel sounds of two or more words, when the consonant sounds preceding and following these vowels do not agree. Thus, strike and grind, hat and man, rime with each other according to the laws of assonance.” Examples: Hear the mellow wedding bells And murmuring of innumerable bees The crumbling thun