Assonance Definition

ăsə-nəns
assonances
noun
assonances
Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in.
American Heritage
Likeness of sound, as in a series of words or syllables.
Webster's New World
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills.
American Heritage
Repetition of a vowel sound in stressed syllables in which the consonant sounds are unlike (Ex.: late, make)
Webster's New World
Rough similarity; approximate agreement.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • vowel rhyme

Other Word Forms of Assonance

Noun

Singular:
assonance
Plural:
assonances

Origin of Assonance

  • French from Latin assonāre to respond to ad- ad- sonāre to sound swen- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French assonance, from Latin word assonare.

    From Wiktionary

Assonance Sentence Examples

  • The redaction of the whole work is due to Alexandre de Bernai, who replaced the original assonance by rhyme.

  • The assonance of these names is probably intentional, cf.

  • Areas such as assonance, dissonance, metaphor and simile are also important.

  • The first stanza contains a series of " connections " between certain words using assonance, rhyme and half-rhyme.

  • Metrical form is distinguished from prose by the uniformity of corresponding lines in relation to the number of syllables and the similarity of final sound (rhyme or assonance), by the repetition of certain letters at regular intervals (in alliterative measure), or merely by the regular succession of ups and downs of intonation.

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Words Starting With

AASASS

Words Ending With

ECENCE

Unscrambles

assonance

Words Starting With A and Ending With E

Starts With A & Ends With EStarts With AS & Ends With EStarts With A & Ends With CE

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With A9 Letter Words Ending With E