A Concise Course of English Rhetoric (7)
I.Definition
Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words.
II. Examples
1)H a ste m a kes w a ste.
2)Spend a d i me, save your t i me.
3)Little str o kes fell great oa ks.
4)Cr e ditors had better m e mories than d e btors.
5)L e t us h e lp you ext e nd yours e lf.
6)While the morality of their mission was clear, the legality was not.
7)Women Make P o licy N o t C o ffee
8)Large factories in China wish to be given a freer hand in the right to h i re and f i re.
9) A heart no bigger than an orange seed has ceased to beat.
10)“It beats…as it sweeps… as it cleans”
III. Exercises
1) A First Lady of Priorities and Proprieties (Title from Times)
2) Glorious profits allow glamorous pleasure (Picture explanation)
3) Jazzy in Jeans, Sassy in Sweater (Title of an article on Di ana’s dressing style)
4) Magnetic, Magnificent Meryl (Title from Life)
5) China’s cities, after decades o f bolted doors and barred windows, are suddenly being opened to sweeping
changes.
6) Scandals and scares, booms and busts made 1987 a period of tumult.
7) With election only weeks away, both sides are claiming victory and crying foul.
8) China and Britain concur an at least one point: the 13-year transition to Chinese rule can make or break
Hong Kong.
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A Concise Course of English Rhetoric (7)
9) Covering seven heads of state and government, in competition with 2,300 other reporters, photographers, broadcast technicians and producers, require special abilities and some agility as well.
10) It’s been apparent to me that we’re not only in an evolutionary but in almost a revolutionary change in the way our military thinking has been driven for the past 40 years.
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