Thesaurus: assonance

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1. n. Resemblance of sound.
2. n. A word/peculiar">peculiar word/species">species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh 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.
3. n. Incomplete correspondence.
4. n. the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
5. 1. word/resemblance">Resemblance of word/sound">sound. "The disagreeable assonance of 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.
6. A word/peculiar">peculiar word/species">species of rhyme, in which the last accented voweland those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with thevowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words areunlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.
7. n:100 n. the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words