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Words that sound good together

Words that sound good together

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Words that sound good together

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- Okay, so, the technical people call this assonance and alliteration. Those are the technical words for, I won't get into it, but it just means writing for the ears. So, it's looking at words and looking at the kind of musical effect that they make through sounds and it's a good thing to understand, good thing to notice and to use whenever it's suitable. Now, it really just means repeating the same strong letters in short order as well as sort of sounds, particularly recognizable sounds, and I should give you some examples. How to serve up sensuous sentences. Okay, sensuous sentences, that's one way of talking about sentences which uses this letter S to say serve up sensuous sentences and sort of putting those sounds together starts to have its own effect, and even when you're reading and not reading aloud, you still do notice the sensual quality of this type of way of writing. The alternative might be, you know, how to create sentences with feeling. Now, that doesn't have all of…

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