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Assonance

Assonance. The repetition of vowel sounds like "the bat fell near the can". Beowulf was written in Old English and contains many lines of alliteration: feasceaft funden ; he þæs frofre gebad , weox under wolcnum , weorþ-myndum þah

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Assonance

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  1. Assonance • The repetition of vowel sounds like • "the bat fell near the can". Beowulf was written in Old English and contains many lines of alliteration: feasceaftfunden; he þæsfrofregebad, weox under wolcnum, weorþ-myndumþah In the first line, the letter "f" is used in repetition, and the same with "w" in the second line.

  2. Alliteration The repetition of initial consonant sounds such as "kicking cans into cars“.

  3. “A foundling was he when he first lay friendless; fate later broughthim solace as he waxed in power and flourished in wealth, until folkwho lodge on the whale-paths near and far heeded his decree andgave him tribute—that was a good king!”

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