Assonance

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  • noun. Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in.
  • noun. The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills.
  • noun. Rough similarity; approximate agreement.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Resemblance of sounds.
  • noun. Specifically In prosody, a species of imperfect rime, or rather a substitute for rime, especially common in Spanish poetry, consisting in using the same vowel-sound with different consonants, and requiring the use of the same vowels in the assonant words from the last accented vowel to the end of the word: thus, man and hat, penitent and reticence, are examples of assonance in English.
  • noun. Agreement or harmony of things.
  • noun. Synonyms Paronomasia, etc. See pun.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Resemblance of sound.
  • noun. A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which 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.
  • noun. Incomplete correspondence.
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  • noun. The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
    • Word Usage
    "When the initial letters are vowels, the gimmick is called assonance."
    cross-reference
    dissonance  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rhyme  rime  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Concorde  alliteration  berating  caesura  consonance  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    alliteration  blank verse  chime  clink  consonance  
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