1) Alternative to rhyme 2) French word used in English 3) Poetic device 4) Relative of alliteration 5) Repeating the vowel sounds 6) Repetition of vowel sounds 7) Resemblance of sounds 8) Rhyme 9) Rime 10) Vowel rhyme
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Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. Assonance is a rhyme, the identity of which depends merely on the vowel sounds. Thus, an assonance is merely a syllabic resemblance. Assonance occurs more o...
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the rhyming of a word with another in one or more of their accented vowels, but not in their consonants; sometimes called vowel rhyme.
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• (n.) 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. • (n.) Resemblance of sound. • (n.) Incomplete correspondence.Assonance: wor...
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in prosody, repetition of stressed vowel sounds within words with different end consonants, as in the phrase `quite like.` It is unlike rhyme, in ... [4 related articles]
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Repeating identical or similar vowels (especially in stressed syllabes) in nearby words. Assonance i
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The rhyming of a word with another in one or more of their accented vowels, but not in their consona
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As'so·nance noun [ Confer French
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 w...
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Repetition of similar sounds (esp. vowels) used for emphasis. Sometimes assonance is near onomatopoeia.
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The effect created when words with the same vowel sound are used in close proximity - but where the consonants in these words are different. In To Autumn by John Keats the line: 'Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;' displays assonance due to the repeated use of the 'i' vowel sound. This means that these words nearly rhyme with each other...
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In poetry, assonance is a term used when the terminating words of lines have the same vowel-sound but make no proper rhyme. Such verses, having what we should consider false rhymes, are regularly employed in Spanish poetry; but cases are not wanting in leading British poets. Mrs. Browning not only used them frequently, but justified the use of them...
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repetition of the same sound in words close to each other.
*Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
*O fortunatam natam me consule Romam! Cicero, de consulatu
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[
n] - the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
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Repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same, used to emphasize important words in a line. For example asleep under a tree.
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Assonance is the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences.
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repetition of a vowel sound, as with the a sound in ace/eight/say.
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the repetition of vowel sounds
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repetition of vowel sounds: crying time; hop-scotch; great flakes; between trees; the kind knight rides by.
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vowel rhyme noun the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
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The matching of vowel sounds in a line (and sometimes, consonants with differing vowels), generally used in poetry. `Load` and `moat`, `farther` and `harder` are examples of assonance, since they match in vowel sounds and stress pattern, but do not rhyme. The device is used to emphasize particular words or im...
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resemblance of sounds. · 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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the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
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the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
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