Kooky Consonance and Asinine Assonance

CJ · Post by CJ » Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:59 pm

Hi all,

I'm in a playful mood tonight. I like playing with words.

Consonance: the repeating of specific consonant sounds after different vowel sounds.
Assonance: the repeating of a specific vowel sound or group of vowel sounds throughout a poem, but not the consonants following them.

No need to be literary here, just wacky. Anything goes: poetry, definitions, whatever.

I'll start off with these:

Definition of a heterosexual male: boy avoid a boy.

Synopsis of the movie Duel, by Steven Spielberg: trucker run amok.

Our cutie, Beauty (not a newbie), bought a tot a pop. Her mom, alarmed, brought out a marmalade thermometer.

One of my favourite examples of consonance is the title of this country song by Randy Hanzlick: I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me Than A Frontal Lobotomy.

Love,
CJ

Beauty · Post by **Beauty** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:05 am

Oh dear gawd!

I'm going to have to be a lurker to this thread. It's way to smart/over my head for me to participate. I'll enjoy reading though.

Here's to the smart!

Beauty

Lorna · Post by **Lorna** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:47 am

The weary way-worn wanderers wore...

Wow.

This thread is a toughy... I'll have to think of some better ones.

Loretta Ann · Post by **Loretta Ann** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:32 am

I like to play also, but this one seems like work to me, I to think I will lurk.

Darlene

Post by **Celia** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:49 pm

Is 'Bananarama' better than 'ram a banana'?

-Celia

Post by **DonnaT** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:14 pm

OK, help me out here, English terminology was not my thing.

Is:

Great guns going, bing, bang, boom!

A consonance, an alliteration, both, neither?

What about?

Two tired t-girls tottered timidly to town.

or

The wide windy wild river calmed.

Lorna · Post by **Lorna** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:18 pm

I got spurs that jingle jangle jingle?

Nope, that won't work. Bear with me here...

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:35 pm

Hmmmm. How about, "I'd rather be chef tonight than left alight?

or "CBS banned Dan Rather for working a rumor into a lather?

or Politics turn to the right and many spurned the fight?

Buffy's true theme song: Peg O' My Heart!!

Lorna · Post by **Lorna** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:57 pm

Fred is dead in the bed with no head.

Sorry! That was worse.

Post by **Celia** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:15 pm

Does this count?

. . . Take this down: I want rustlers, cut-throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nit-wits, half-wits, dim-wits, vipers, snipers, con-men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bush-whackers, horn-swagglers, horse-thieves, bull-dykes, train-robbers, bank-robbers, a**-kickers, sh**-kickers, and Methodists!

-Celia

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:19 pm

Ah yes, a quote from Heddy (oops sorry, Hedley) Lamarr!!!!!

Post by **Celia** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:32 pm

Being a fan of Blazing Saddles does serve me from time to time.

-Celia

CJ · Post by CJ » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:44 am

Hi all,

Something my father used to tell us over and over and over (and over) when we were kids:

Four funny freckle-faced fellows found 14 flouncing frogs fighting furiously for 55 fried fishes floating far from Fort Frontenac.

Dads, eh! What would we do without them?

Fun contributions, by the way, y'all. Lorna, your stuff is double plus fine, no worries.

Love,
CJ

Raven(SO) · Post by **Raven(SO)** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:51 am

misses beaton gave mr beaton a beaten for beating the beaton boys ??
hows that,
Raven

Lorna · Post by **Lorna** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:16 pm

CJ wrote: Lorna, your stuff is double plus fine, no worries.

Love,
CJ

Thanks, hon!!

I'll try one more...

No mo will Joe say to Flo "Yo, you ho!" inside of a dojo. Joe can walk no mo.

(Eeeeek!)