 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
assonance
noun: the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables
of successive words [syn: {vowel rhyme}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Assonance \As"so*nance\, noun [Cf. F. assonance. See {Assonant}.]
1. Resemblance of sound. ''The disagreeable assonance of
'sheath' and 'sheathed.''' --Steevens.
2. (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. --Hallam.
3. Incomplete correspondence.
Assonance between facts seemingly remote. --Lowell.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "assonance":
alliteration, blank verse, chime, clink, consonance, crambo,
dingdong, double rhyme, drone, eye rhyme, harping, humdrum, jingle,
jingle-jangle, monotone, monotony, near rhyme, paronomasia,
pitter-patter, pun, repeated sounds, repetitiousness,
repetitiveness, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme,
rhyming dictionary, single rhyme, singsong, slant rhyme,
stale repetition, tail rhyme, tedium, trot, unnecessary repetition,
unrhymed poetry
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