Assonance is the use of repeated vowel sounds in a series of words. If the lines below are the supposed lines given: He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, ⇒ assonance vowel sound of "i"and infested with tiny white sea-lice, ⇒ assonance vowel sound of "i"and underneath two or threerags of green weed hung down. ⇒ assonance vowel sound of "e"While his gills were breathing in ⇒ assonance vowel sound of "i"the terrible oxygen --the frightening gills, ⇒ assonance vowel sound of "i"fresh and crisp with blood, that can cut so badly— ⇒ assonance "a"I thought of the coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and the little bones, ⇒ assonance "i" and "o"
Assonance is the use of repeated vowel sounds in a series of words. If the lines below are the supposed lines given: He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, ⇒ assonance vowel sound of "i"and infested with tiny white sea-lice, ⇒ assonance vowel sound of "i"and underneath two or threerags of green weed hung down. ⇒ assonance vowel sound of "e"While his gills were breathing in ⇒ assonance vowel sound of "i"the terrible oxygen --the frightening gills, ⇒ assonance vowel sound of "i"fresh and crisp with blood, that can cut so badly— ⇒ assonance "a"I thought of the coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and the little bones, ⇒ assonance "i" and "o"
<span>The reason why Odysseus continued to taunt the Cyclops as he pulls away
from the shore is to claim his pride of defeating Cyclops and show the latter
his incomparable and unparalleled strength which was able to vanquish him to
his failure.</span>
