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Meanings of assonance in inglés
portugués
assonância catalán
assonància A rhyme in which the vowel of the stressed syllable or syllables is repeated but the consonants change.
Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences; one of the building blocks of verse.
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Usage of assonance in inglés
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A coarse and clumsy assonance seldom spread its snare in vain.
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Hey, there are worse ways to bring the '90s back than observational assonance.
3
He made use of assonance, which placed together words or syllables with related sounds.
4
Anything approaching assonance between the two divisions is to be counted as a defect.
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A monstrous tin pan would have yielded as much assonance.
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I cannot help but smile at this least poetic of men's unconscious use of assonance.
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Partial rhymes: assonance and consonance-eye-rhyme and wrenched rhyme
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Names that are all connotation and assonance, Z's and X's for ups and M's for downs.
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Alliteration, assonance, compound words, personifications, are greatly overused.
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The style of the passage is nearly as peculiar as its thought, it abounds in assonance and alliteration.
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At the doorways the worker in brass and silver hammered away at his metal, a sleepy, musical assonance.
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He talks of assonance and color, of stress and pause and accent, and bewilders me with his theories.
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The redaction of the whole work is due to Alexandre de Bernai, who replaced the original assonance by rhyme.
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The beauty of the contents of a phrase, or of a sentence, depends implicitly upon alliteration and upon assonance.
15
There's an assonance, isn't there?'
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Dinted, dimpled, wimpled-hismind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point.
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Translations for assonance
portugués
ruso
Assonance through the time