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1. (n.) assonance
similarity of sounds in words or syllables.
2. assonance
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.
Etymology: (1720–30; < F, =asson(ant) (< L
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1. (noun) assonance, vowel rhyme
the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
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1. (noun) assonance
resemblance of sound
2. (noun) assonance
a peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh 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
3. (noun) assonance
incomplete correspondence
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