ASSONANCE

Assonance

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. Assonance is a rhyme, the identity of which depends merely on the vowel sounds. Thus, an assonance is merely a syllabic resemblance.

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assonance

Noun

  1. The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.


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