Read the excerpt from "VI" by Emily Dickinson. If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. Which phrase includes assonance?

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. In “brush the summer,” the words “brush” and “summer” repeat the short u sound, as in “uh.” The phrase “brush the summer” therefore includes assonance.

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