Rude-awakening Sentence Examples

Assonance poems are abundant in literature. Much like alliteration repeats consonant sounds, assonance features repeated vowel sounds in words that are close to each other. But finding examples of assonance can be trickier than finding alliteration since the vowel sounds are often only heard when read aloud. Keep reading for examples of poetry with assonance that are pleasing to the ear.

Persian-born Merwan Sheriar Irani became known as Meher Baba, meaning “Compassionate Father,” because of his spiritual teachings. Though he chose to observe silence for nearly 44 years of his life, that didn’t stop Meher Baba from communicating about spirituality with his friends and followers through an alphabet board and elaborate hand gestures.