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noun

Assonance n.

Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of 'sheath' and 'sheathed.'"

(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. "The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard."

Incomplete correspondence. "Assonance between facts seemingly remote."

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Etymology of 'Assonance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Assonance" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the elements of which was the repetition of words or sounds at regular intervals, was transformed about the eighth century into a more learned system. Thenceforward alliteration, assonance, rhyme, and a fixed number of syllables constituted ...

— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox

... necessarily inadequate, as the poems depend very much on modulations of rhythm and on the expressive fitting together of words impossible to render in a foreign language. He uses rhyme comparatively little, often substituting assonance in accordance with the peculiar traditions of Spanish prosody. I have made no attempt ...

— Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos

... with Welsh, though he does not seem to have preached it, and another archdeacon acted as the interpreter of Archbishop Baldwin's Crusade sermon in Anglesea. But he could appreciate the charm of the Cynghanedd, the alliterative assonance which is still the most distinctive feature of Welsh poetry. He cannot conceal his sympathy with the imperishable determination of his countrymen to keep alive the language which is their differentia among the nations of the world. It is manifest in the story ...

— The Itinerary of Archibishop Baldwin through Wales • Giraldus Cambrensis

... or tune, and other data, often rather subtle, have been employed in making decisions. The quatrain form has in uncertain instances been given the benefit of the doubt. Even thus, certain minor inconsistencies will perhaps be noted. It is hardly necessary to add that assonance freely occurs in the place of rime, and as such it ...

— A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs • Hubert G. Shearin

Words linked to "Assonance" : assonate, rime, assonant