Assonance, where the use of similar vowel sounds within a word rather than similar sounds at the beginning or end of a word, was widely used in skaldic poetry, but goes back to the Homeric epic.

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse.

Assonance is found more often in verse than in prose.

Assonance is the repetition of a similar set of vowel sounds, it is used to emphasize intensity, mood, imagery, etc.

Assonance in place of rhyme is common.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

Andronikos seems then to have resolved to exterminate the aristocracy, and his plans were nearly successful.

It has been shown that nearly all natural languages may in general be characterized by context-sensitive grammars, but the whole class of CSG's seems to be much bigger than natural languages.

Cassius Dio, writing nearly a hundred years after the assassination, includes Domitia Longina among the conspirators, but in light of her attested devotion to Domitian — even years after her husband had died — her involvement in the plot seems highly unlikely.

A heavy drinker as a young man, he seems to have quit the bottle soon after arriving in New York, after his drinking nearly cost him the courtship of the woman who became his first wife, Ellen Egan.

" During the same year, Jack Stillinger claimed that " Coleridge wrote only a few poems of the first rank – perhaps no more than a dozen, all told – and he seems to have taken a very casual attitude toward them ... he kept Kubla Khan in manuscript for nearly twenty years before offering it to the public ' rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the grounds of any supposed poetic merits '".

In theory, it seems nearly ideal ; a stylus replicating the motion of the recording lathe used to cut the " master " record could result in minimal wear and maximum sound reproduction.

Food writer Jeffrey Steingarten says that " the desired texture seems to vary from city to city " on the island ; on the west coast and in Palermo, it is at its chunkiest, and in the east it is nearly as smooth as sorbet.

This cautious approach was well advised, but still the numerous incidents of covert and open hostility between the Franks and the Greeks on their line of march, for which it seems both sides were to blame, nearly precipitated a conflict between Manuel and his guests.

Appearing in various tribal peoples from Aboriginal Australia and Māori New Zealand to the Amazon, African savannah, and pagan Europe, some form of shamanic contact with the spirit world seems to be nearly universal in the early development of human communities.

This seems to have been a minority view until it was popularised nearly a century later by Fioravante Martinelli, who listed the Colosseum at the head of a list of places sacred to the martyrs in his 1653 book Roma ex ethnica sacra.

He reunites with Angel and seems genuinely pleased to see him, but is disgusted to find that Angel has a soul ( whether or not Spike in fact knew that Angel's acquisition of a soul is why he left the group nearly a century before has never been made clear ) and is in love with the current Slayer, Buffy Summers.

Many happy memories are brought to my mind as I write these few lines and it hardly seems possible that nearly 32 years have passed since we were lads and enjoying the great out of doors, hiking, pitching tents, building fires and camping.

Grimethorpe seems a likely killer, but while investigating his alibi ( and nearly being killed by stumbling into a bog pit ), Peter confirms that Grimethorpe was elsewhere on the fatal night.

During the early medieval period ( 11-12th century AD ) a huge structure of nearly 50 metres north-south orientation was constructed which seems to have been short lived as only four of the 50 pillar bases exposed during the excavation belonged to this level with a brick crush floor.

In his writings, which were numerous, he seems to have covered nearly the whole of the Academic program ; but metaphysics and ethics were the subjects which principally engaged his thoughts.

This is one form of camping that seems to be frowned upon by nearly every player, and is actually banned in the Call of Duty 2 ClanBase ladders.

Again, it seems as though Luke does not " know " that Mark is in the room, even though it is claimed he has a justified true belief that Mark is in the room, but it's not nearly so clear that the perceptual belief that " Mark is in the room " was inferred from any premises at all, let alone any false ones, nor led to significant conclusions on its own ; Luke didn't seem to be reasoning about anything ; " Mark is in the room " seems to have been part of what he seemed to see.

Poland's Ruch Muzyczny summed up, " The Vermeer's interpretation seems so nearly ideal that one can more easily appreciate music as universal harmony.

It is not clear how the ascent of from Hinchwick to the Down was made, but on the Down a lane northwards from Springhill takes nearly the same line for to near the Evesham road, from which a parish boundary over Saintbury Hill seems to mark the course down the north side.

Although some knowledge of Aristotle seems to have lingered on in the ecclesiastical centres of western Europe after the fall of the Roman empire, by the ninth century nearly all that was known of Aristotle consisted of Boethius's commentaries on the Organon, and a few abridgments made by Latin authors of the declining empire, Isidore of Seville and Martianus Capella.

Kurt seems to have nearly fully recovered from his injuries since he, along with Beast, the entire New X-Men team are teleported to Muir Island by Pixie.

The Mississippi Sandhill Crane has most drastically declined in range ; it used to occur along most of the northern Gulf of Mexico coast and its range was at one time nearly parapatric with that of its eastern neighbor ( compare the Mottled Duck ); today only 25 breeding pairs exist in an intensively managed population, but this seems at least stable in recent times.

Judaism faced some severe restrictions under Constantius, who seems to have followed an anti-Jewish policy in line with that of his father.

It seems that Dillinger's crimes before this were severe enough to merit federal interaction into the case.

From his wife's autobiography it seems his mental illness took the form of a bipolar disorder, with the depressive phases being of moderate to severe intensity.

According to Helen Burns “ Roosevelt met with severe criticism from the liberals and the progressives for not nationalizing the bank during the period of crisis .” She states “ there seems little doubt that he could have done this ” but she also concludes Roosevelt “ did not believe in a government-owned and-operated bank ” and was ultimately pragmatic or even conservative in his approach to banking legislation.

Germany was ablaze with the questions raised by Martin Luther's theses, and Oecolampadius's introduction into this environment, when he championed Luther's position, especially in his anonymous Canonici indocti ( 1519 ), seems to have compelled him to severe self-examination, which ended in his becoming a monk.

Thus the one advantage analog seems to have in this respect is that an analog recording may be " usable " even after the media it is stored on has suffered severe deterioration whereas it has been noticed that even slight media degradation in digital recordings may cause them to suffer from an " all or nothing " failure, i. e. the digital recording will end up being totally un-playable without very expensive restoration work.

One study showed the incidence of hip dysplasia increased to 6. 7 % for dogs neutered before 5. 5 months compared to 4. 7 % for dogs neutered after 5. 5 months, although the cases associated with early age neutering seems to be of a less severe form.

For instance, the punishment for a forced sex act between a man and a woman states "... if any man through insolence forcibly contaminates a maiden, two of his fingers shall be instantly cut off, and he shall pay a fine of six hundred ( panas )", which seems more severe in comparison to the punishment prescribed for the same act between two virgins.

The trial and execution of her confessor and pseudo-steward seems to have been a severe blow to the old lady, for she died in April of the same year and was buried with her husband in the vault in the chancel, and her effigy lies by his on the tomb above.

It seems to be an iron rule: guidelines sentencing empowers prosecutors, even where the guidelines ' authors try to fight that tendency ... In short, plea bargains outside the law's shadow depend on prosecutors ' ability to make credible threats of severe post-trial sentences.

He seems to have been unusually devoted to his profession, being at once a severe student, and an active and successful advocate and business man.

By the end of the scene, everyone is laughing and nobody seems to show any further concern about Milia's actions ( or Max's lack of concern )-or the serious danger that Komilia could be in due to Milia's severe misconceptions on how to handle a baby.

During the Permian – Triassic extinction event ( 250 million years ago ) a severe anoxic event seems to have occurred where these forms of bacteria became the dominant force in oceanic ecosystems, producing copious amounts of hydrogen sulfide.

In 25 BC, Augustus seems to have given a part of Gaetulia to Juba II, together with his kingdom of Mauretania, probably with the object of controlling the turbulent tribes ; but the Gaetulians arose and massacred the Roman residents, and it was not until a severe defeat had been inflicted on them by Cornelius Lentulus ( who thus acquired the surname Gaetulicus ) in 6 AD, that they submitted to the king.

: The storm near the mouth of the Columbia seems to have been entirely distinct from the one which swept through the Willamette Valley, and scarcely as severe or prolonged.

The Drapier claims, " Mr. Wood in publishing this paper would insinuate to the world, as if the Committee had a greater concern for his credit and private emolument, than for the honour of the Privy-council and both Houses of Parliament here ... For it seems intended as a vindication of Mr. Wood, not without several severe remarks on the Houses of Lords and Commons of Ireland.

When antihistamines do work, loratadine seems to be the most effective for mild cases and doxepin most effective for more severe cases.

This feature appears most strongly in his treatment of Joan of Arc ; and the attack on Agnès Sorel seems to have been dictated by the dauphin ( afterwards Louis XI ), then a refugee in Burgundy, of whom he was afterwards to become a severe critic.

The destruction of the Academy seems to have been so severe as to make the reconstruction and re-opening of the Academy impossible.