17: Off With Their Heads
Good Job, Brain!
Karen Chu
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2012
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello, smart, smooth, smoking, smashing and smoldering smilers. |
| 0:21.1 | Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat trivia |
| 0:24.4 | podcast. This is episode 17 and of course I'm your humble host Karen and we are your |
| 0:30.6 | amusing and animated alliteration adores admitting assonance abuse. |
| 0:38.6 | So we have a, to start off the show, we have a quick correction segment, which we're going to lovingly called |
| 0:44.0 | um actually um actually our last episode I think we uh... confused assonance with |
| 0:51.7 | illiteration just to clarify everything so |
| 0:54.4 | alliteration refers to it's at the beginning of words kind of consecutive |
| 0:59.2 | words yeah of the petition of continent sounds at the beginning of consecutive |
| 1:02.2 | words not necessarily it can be all as of the |
| 1:05.0 | beginning of consecutive words. Not necessarily. |
| 1:07.0 | It can be bowel as well. |
| 1:06.0 | My understanding was it's just repetition of whatever the sound is at the beginning. |
| 1:09.0 | So, alliteration refers to the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words. |
| 1:16.0 | Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds and only vowel sounds to create internal rhyming. |
| 1:23.6 | So it's within. |
| 1:25.2 | An example would be how now a brown cow. |
| 1:28.6 | And then there's also consonants. |
| 1:30.7 | And consonants is the same thing with assonants, but it's with consonants, obviously. |
| 1:35.0 | So it's the repetition of the same consonant in short succession. |
| 1:39.0 | So an example would be, all mammals named Sam are clammy. |
| 1:43.0 | Pitter-Patter is both alliteration and consonants, |
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