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Definition of: assonance

(asə·nəns) noun
1. Resemblance in sound; specifically, in prosody, correspondence of the accented vowels, but not of the consonants, as in main, came.
2. Rough likeness; approximation. [<F <L assonans, ppr. of assonare sound to, respond to <ad- to + sonare sound]
—as′so·nant
adjective & noun

Most often used phrases:

alliteration assonance
assonance alliteration
rhyme assonance
assonance rhyme
assonance consonance
pure assonance
assonance half
assonance rhyming

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