assonance
resemblance of sounds.
Also called vow·el rhyme [vou-uhl rahym] /ˈvaʊ əl ˌraɪm/ .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.
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Origin of assonance
1Other words from assonance
- as·so·nant, adjective, noun
- as·so·nan·tal [as-uh-nan-tl], /ˌæs əˈnæn tl/, as·so·nan·tic, adjective
- non·as·so·nance, noun
- non·as·so·nant, adjective, noun
Words Nearby assonance
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How to use assonance in a sentence
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.
Chapters on Jewish Literature | Israel Abrahamsassonance, 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.
Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred Downer
Paradise Lost abounds with the assonance which the dominant feeling of the poet induced.
The Voice and Spiritual Education | Hiram Corson
British Dictionary definitions for assonance
/ (ˈæsənəns) /
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
Origin of assonance
1Derived forms of assonance
- assonant, adjective, noun
- assonantal (ˌæsəˈnæntəl), adjective
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