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 "
1 A coarse and clumsy assonance seldom spread its snare in vain.
2 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.
5 A monstrous tin pan would have yielded as much assonance .
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