Euphony

Euphony Assignment

1.1 Examine excerpt #7 on the handout (Color and Light from Sunday in the Park with George), and identify in it examples of:

• sounds formed by similar regions of the singer’s lips or mouth
• consonance (list several examples)
• assonance (list at least two examples
• “tiny” syllables
• initial consonants repeating preceding consonant (you might need to read it out loud to find these; we found FOUR)

1.2 Create three short euphonious phrases in which the sounds are formed by similar regions of the singer’s lips or mouth (e.g., “Not a Todd, a Donatello” or “Oh, the old folks of yore.”)

1.3 Create three short euphonious phrases formed from “tiny” syllables which are easily articulated with the tip of the tongue or the front of the lips (e.g., “pit a pat o’ butter” or “bitter batter bitter batter”)

1.4 Create three short euphonious phrases in which initial consonants repeat preceding consonants. (e.g., “lonely yellow window washer.”)

1.5 Create three short UN-euphonious phrases which use clustered consonants, probably requiring a distracting amount of diction in order to be understood. (e.g., “couch scratch”)

1.6 Create three slightly longer phrases in which the first third is euphonious, the middle third is UN-euphonious, and the final third is euphonious again. In other words, glunk up the middle parts of three otherwise perfectly lovely phrases.