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.
Attenuation refers to the reduction in the strength of a signal over distance. Think of the sound comming from your speaker. If you are standing right next to your speaker, the sound is very loud and strong. But, the farther you move away, the quieter the sound gets. Eventually, you won't be able to hear it at all.