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Webster 1913 Edition
Assonance
1.
Resemblance of sound.
“The disagreeable assonance of ‘sheath’ and ‘sheathed.'” Steevens.
2.
(Pros.)
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;
as,
. calamo
and platano
, baby
and chary
The
assonance
is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.
3.
Incomplete correspondence.
Assonance
between facts seemingly remote. Lowell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Assonance
AS'SONANCE
,Noun.
Resemblance of sounds. In rhetoric and poetry, a resemblance in sound or termination, without making rhyme.
Definition 2024
assonance
assonance
See also: assonancé
English
Noun
assonance (plural assonances)
- (prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
| Examples (prosody) |
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Lifting its big glinting wing, it hit. |
Related terms
See also
Translations
repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: assonancent, assonances
Noun
assonance f (plural assonances)
Verb
assonance
- first-person singular present indicative of assonancer
- third-person singular present indicative of assonancer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of assonancer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of assonancer
- second-person singular imperative of assonancer