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Difficulty: EasySound Devices and Musicality

Read the following lines of poetry:

"The lone owl howls in the cloudless night,
As outer shadows bound out of sight."

Which sound device is demonstrated by the repetition of the internal vowel sound in "owl", "howls", "cloudless", "outer", and "out"?

  1. AssonanceAnswer
  2. B
    Alliteration
  3. C
    Consonance
  4. D
    Onomatopoeia

Answer

Assonance
The repetition of the vowel sound /aʊ/ across 'owl', 'howls', 'cloudless', 'outer', and 'out' creates internal musical harmony, which is the defining characteristic of assonance.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the sound pattern in the given words
The words 'owl', 'howls', 'cloudless', 'outer', and 'out' share the repeated vowel sound /aʊ/.
Identifying whether the repeated sound consists of vowels or consonants determines the appropriate sound device.
2
Match the sound pattern to the appropriate literary sound device
The repetition of internal vowel sounds across closely occurring words is classified as assonance.
Assonance specifically refers to the recurrence of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables without repeating consonants.

Key Concept

Assonance as a Poetic Sound Device
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