About The Word Assonance
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Assonance
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What's The Definition Of Assonance?
[n] the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Synonyms | Synonyms for Assonance: vowel rhyme Related Terms | Find terms related to Assonance: alliteration | blank verse | chime | clink | consonance | crambo | dingdong | double rhyme | drone | eye rhyme | harping | humdrum | jingle | jingle-jangle | monotone | monotony | near rhyme | paronomasia | pitter-patter | pun | repeated sounds | repetitiousness | repetitiveness | rhyme | rhyme royal | rhyme scheme | rhyming dictionary | single rhyme | singsong | slant rhyme | stale repetition | tail rhyme | tedium | trot | unnecessary repetition | unrhymed poetry Assonance In Webster's Dictionary \As"so*nance\, n. [Cf. F. assonance. See {Assonant}.]
1. Resemblance of sound. ``The disagreeable assonance of
`sheath' and `sheathed.''' --Steevens.
2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last
acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word
correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while
the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as,
calamo and platano, baby and chary.
The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. --Hallam.
3. Incomplete correspondence.
Assonance between facts seemingly remote. --Lowell.
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