Literary Term #37: Euphony
July 29th, 2007 by Nate in
Literary Terms
Today’s literary term is ‘Euphony,’ meaning soothing, pleasant words. In most cases, poetry is euphonic as it is pleasing to read or listen to, and the most famous euphonic phrase is “cellar door,” which is considered to be the most beautiful phrase in the English language. To achieve euphony, many writers typically use alliteration, assonance, and rhyming.
So can you come up with a euphonic phrase?

July 30th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
“cellar door” huh. never knew that. Any particular reason why it’s so euphonic?
Mine: “daily crosswords” well, I think it sounds pleasant, anyway ^_^
“euphony” wouldn’t happen to be related to “euphamism”, would it?