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Word: Assonance
Speech Type: Noun
early 18th century: from French, from Latin assonare ‘respond to’, from ad- ‘to’ + sonare (from sonus ‘sound’)
ˈasənəns
resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled)
Short Definition:resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from rhyming of two or more stressed vowels
Examples:- the use of assonance throughout the poem creates the sound of despair
- alliterative assonances such as ‘fail’ and ‘fall’ are very common in Old English poetry
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