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briat
briat
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High School - 10th Grade

What is the assonance in "After Apple Picking"?

what is the internal rhyme, alliteration, and consonance

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Posted by briat on Monday October 13, 2008 at 2:07 PM and tagged with after apple-picking, assonance, robert frost.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

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    Assonance is subtle to pick out. Look at the lines containing the same or similar vowel sounds. For example, look at this line: " And there's a barrel that I didn't fill" The phrase "didn't fill" has assonance in the "i" sounds.

     

    This is an even better example: " Apples I didn't pick upon some bough." The phrase "didn't pick" has similar vowel sounds, and "on some bough" has similar (though not the same) vowel sounds. These link the words one to another, and create a subtle resonance.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/after-apple-picking-salem
    http://www.enotes.com/oce-encyclopedia/assonance

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    Posted by gbeatty on Monday October 13, 2008 at 5:18 PM