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.
Historical Examples. 1  Not being able to preserve the assonance, I have dropped the greater part of his title. 2  It is an example of assonance which is lost in the translation. 3  It is, we might say, a rhythm of thought, an assonance of feeling. 4  Yet there is an amount of assonance, which at times approaches to rhyme. The Expositor's Bible George Adam Smith In our ode there is not much either of assonance or alliteration.