K-Ming Chang's taut novella "Cecilia" explores the intensity of desire by slinking along the razor-thin line between love and ...

K-Ming Chang's taut novella explores the intensity of desire by slinking along the razor-thin line between love and obsession ...

His poetry soon took to itself not only Gaelic effects of alliteration and assonance, but Gaelic effects of rhythm: that "gapped music" so delicate that it seems to come from the rise and fall of ...

In the 1970s, science fiction writer JG Ballard was intrigued by the growing capabilities of computers – so used one to ...

It reminds me of other words that have similar sounds inside them. Words that it shares an assonance with. Words like unique, sleek and weep. Assonance is a bit like rhyme. But instead of having ...

After a successful run at the Fringe, Martha Watson Allpress’ lyrically poignant show Lady Dealer now comes to the Bush ...

He discusses alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia, showing us how to use these techniques and what impact they have on the poem and the reader/listener. He has fun with tongue-twisters ...

Jean-Hughes Chevy repeated assonance and consonance sounds on four poetic lines that stretched out a metaphor about making a choice in Paris, France. Luciana Moretto believes that poetry ...

It seems many brand names do not have a singular pronunciation. 3. Assonance, with good yoghurt words like 'plops' and 'dollops'. 4. Nice symmetry which we initially emphasised by using a capital ...

Balls of coffee-coloured foam broke away, rolling and skipping inland. The precision of the description, the mimetic balance of the sentences, and the ways punctuation, assonance and alliteration are ...

“It gives this rushed quality,” she says. “Rhyming `alcoholic' and `aesthetic,' she plays a lot with assonance. It is technically a vowel-driven repetition of sounds,” she adds. There's a ...