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assonance
[ as-uh-nuhns ]
noun
- resemblance of sounds.
- Also called vow·el rhyme [vou, -, uh, l rahym]. Prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
- partial agreement or correspondence.
assonance
/ ˈæsənəns; ˌæsəˈnæntəl /
noun
- the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
- partial correspondence; rough similarity
Derived Forms
- assonantal, adjective
- ˈassonant, adjectivenoun
Other Words From
- as·so·nant adjective noun
- as·so·nan·tal [as-, uh, -, nan, -tl], as·so·nan·tic adjective
- non·as·so·nance noun
- non·as·so·nant adjective noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of assonance1
Word History and Origins
Origin of assonance1
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Example Sentences
Max Fish and Snow are wed by more than their iambic assonance.
Sometimes they enshrine a pun or a conceit, or depend for their aptness upon an assonance.
Assonance, in poetry, a term used when the terminating words of lines have the same vowel sound but make no proper rhyme.
It is written in stanzas of various length, bound together by the vowel-rhyme known as assonance.
Not only is there no rhyme, but assonance is very carefully avoided.
Paradise Lost abounds with the assonance which the dominant feeling of the poet induced.
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