Assonance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assonance \As"so*nance\, n. [Cf. F. assonance. See {Assonant}.]
     1. Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of
        `sheath' and `sheathed.'" --Steevens.
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     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.
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              The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. --Hallam.
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     3. Incomplete correspondence.
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              Assonance between facts seemingly remote. --Lowell.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  assonance
       n : the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables
           of successive words [syn: {vowel rhyme}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "assonance":
     alliteration, blank verse, chime, clink, consonance, crambo,
     dingdong, double rhyme, drone, eye rhyme, harping, humdrum, jingle,
     jingle-jangle, monotone, monotony, near rhyme, paronomasia,
     pitter-patter, pun, repeated sounds, repetitiousness,
     repetitiveness, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme,
     rhyming dictionary, single rhyme, singsong, slant rhyme,
     stale repetition, tail rhyme, tedium, trot, unnecessary repetition,
     unrhymed poetry