A Study of Sound Devices in Poems of Tigrigna Focusing On Assonance [C-V-C]

Abstract

The article deals with a study of sound devices in selected Germay Gebrus’s Tigrigna poems taken from “wuʃaI” (1993) focusing on Assonance. The main aim of this study is to make out the assonance devices in the selected poems and to examine the role of this sound device in creating and achieving aesthetic effects. As a model, the revised method proposed by Leech (1969) in his book “A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry has adopted for the study. Consequently, the result of the study shows the employment of an assonance device in the selected poems used for creating aesthetic effects and used to highlight the significance of certain words in a sentence.