Animism in the broadest sense, i.e., thinking of objects as animate, and treating them as if they were animate, is near-universal. Jean Piaget applied the term in reference to an implicit understanding of the world in a child's mind which assumes that all events are the product of intention or consciousness.
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 does not have to be a rhyme; the identity of which depends merely on sequence of both vowel and consonant sounds.ssonance 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.
Among other factors, the rhythm and music embedded in poetry causes us to connect with it. There are several literary and poetic devices that make poems appealing. Recently, I wrote about one such textual device, the acrostic. Assonance and consonance are literary devices that help embed sound into text. Assonance. Assonance repeats vowel sounds to create a rhythm or beat. One of my favorite examples of assonance is: I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless. ~Thin Lizzy, âWith Loveâ. Read that sentence a couple of times.