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assonance
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words [syn: vowel rhyme ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, "resemblance of sounds between words," from French assonance , from assonant , from Latin assonantem (nominative assonans ), present participle of assonare "to resound, respond to," from ad- "to" (see ad- ) + sonare "to sound" (see sonata ). Properly, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Are there any phonological patterns of rhyme, alliteration, assonance , etc? ▪ The photographs are linked across the book by fleeting resemblances, oppositions, repetitions, the pictorial equivalents of assonance and half-rhyme. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assonance \As"so*nance\, n. [Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant .] Resemblance of sound. ``The disagreeable assonance of `sheath' and `sheathed.''' --Steevens. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those ...
Usage examples of assonance.
There was simply not the time to cast it into rhyme or metre, to take care with assonance and ambiguity.
The rhythmical structure of poetry, and above all the device of rhyme, is essentially immature and childish: the use by poets of rhythmical beat and verbal assonance is simply the endeavour to captivate what is a primeval and even barbarous instinct.
The bikes on the walls, on the ceiling, seemed to strike up an assonance with the oil and metal at the back of his throat.
It is for one thing in a metre I invented (depending on trisyllabic assonances or near-assonances, which is so difficult that except in this one example I have never been able to use it again – it just blew out in a single impulse).
The song had words, but the multitude of voices drowned out the meaning in a million blended assonances.
Or where this is broken, as in ym/in, we have recognition of the fact that m/n, though technically made at different contact points, have in their nasality and resonance a similarity which overrides the more mechanical distinction - a fact which is reflected, shall we say, both in the case of m/n interchange in real languages (such as Greek), or in my inability to feel greatly wounded by m/n assonances in a rhyming poem.
Well, even as there are rhymes for the eye, so you will find that there are assonances and alliterations.
Ringed and ringleted, perfumed and pomaded, fringed and furbelowed, beaded and brocaded, he combined nature and nurture so overpoweringly, in fact in such an absolute assonance of synesthetic alliteration, that it became a positive pleasure to remind one's self that the underlying essence of his official cachet, like the musk of sex and the ambergris of the most ancient perfumes, was—Alex bit silently but savagely down on the word—garbage.
In his poetry he strives to embody the ideals proclaimed in his prose work, which are, first, to write nothing that is not moral and elevating in tone, and, second, to express himself in versification which is obedient to the laws of regular musical composition, in rhyme, rhythm, vowel assonance, alliteration, and phrasings.