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Encyclopedia: Euphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Explaining euphony is like putting a strange quicksilver animal inside a ribbed cage, the better to observe its physique, behaviors, and eccentricities; as soon as the creature gets settled in the cage, however, it collapses itself into viscous globules, leaches through the cage floor, and eludes further scrutiny. |
 | | But measuring euphony is highly subjective; it is no surprise that of the elements of style, euphony is the hardest to teach and to learn. |
 | | To succeed in writing and speech, then, requires a conscious exercise of euphony or wordplay—the skillful layering of words for both their denotations and connotations, the gentle coaxing of language to yield unstated (or subconscious) yet persuasive meanings through such devices as tone, mood, rhythm, even sound for sound’s sake. |
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