assonance

[ as-uh-nuhns ]
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noun
  1. resemblance of sounds.

  2. 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.

  1. partial agreement or correspondence.

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Origin of assonance

1
1720–30; <French, equivalent to asson(ant) sounding in answer (see as-, sonant) + -ance-ance

Other 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

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British Dictionary definitions for assonance

assonance

/ (ˈæsənəns) /


noun
  1. 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

  2. partial correspondence; rough similarity

Origin of assonance

1
C18: from French, from Latin assonāre to sound, from sonāre to sound

Derived forms of assonance

  • assonant, adjective, noun
  • assonantal (ˌæsəˈnæntəl), adjective

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