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Meanings of assonance in English

Portuguese
assonância
Catalan
assonància

A rhyme in which the vowel of the stressed syllable or syllables is repeated but the consonants change.

assonância
Russian
ассонанс
Portuguese
assonancia
Spanish
asonancia
Catalan
assonància

Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences; one of the building blocks of verse.

Related terms
ассонанс
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Examples for "vowel rhyme"
Examples for "vowel rhyme"
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It is written in the assonant, or vowel rhyme, that was universal among European nations in the early stage of their civilization.
National Epics
Usage of assonance in English
1
A coarse and clumsy assonance seldom spread its snare in vain.
Aspects of Literature
2
Hey, there are worse ways to bring the '90s back than observational assonance.
Wired
3
He made use of assonance, which placed together words or syllables with related sounds.
A. lincoln: a biography
4
Anything approaching assonance between the two divisions is to be counted as a defect.
Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson
5
A monstrous tin pan would have yielded as much assonance.
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete
6
I cannot help but smile at this least poetic of men's unconscious use of assonance.
The Hyperion Cantos
7
Partial rhymes: assonance and consonance-eye-rhyme and wrenched rhyme
The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
8
Names that are all connotation and assonance, Z's and X's for ups and M's for downs.
Up in the air
9
Alliteration, assonance, compound words, personifications, are greatly overused.
Sidney Lanier
10
The style of the passage is nearly as peculiar as its thought, it abounds in assonance and alliteration.
Introduction to the Old Testament
11
At the doorways the worker in brass and silver hammered away at his metal, a sleepy, musical assonance.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 01
12
He talks of assonance and color, of stress and pause and accent, and bewilders me with his theories.
Ballads of a Bohemian
13
The redaction of the whole work is due to Alexandre de Bernai, who replaced the original assonance by rhyme.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
14
The beauty of the contents of a phrase, or of a sentence, depends implicitly upon alliteration and upon assonance.
Essays in the Art of Writing
15
There's an assonance, isn't there?'
The water room
16
Dinted, dimpled, wimpled-hismind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point.
Crome Yellow
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Assonance through the time