Stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighbouring words whose vowel sounds are different.
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Examples for "assonance"
Examples for "assonance"
1A coarse and clumsy assonance seldom spread its snare in vain.
2Hey, there are worse ways to bring the '90s back than observational assonance.
3He made use of assonance, which placed together words or syllables with related sounds.
4Anything approaching assonance between the two divisions is to be counted as a defect.
5A monstrous tin pan would have yielded as much assonance.
Translations for literary consonance