| Prosody. assonance (def. 2). |
[as-uh-nuh
ns] 
| 1. | resemblance of sounds. |
| 2. | Also called vowel rhyme. 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. |
| 3. | partial agreement or correspondence. |