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Assonance - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Assonance : (noun)
1: the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables
of successive words [syn: vowel rhyme]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Assonance : \As"so*nance\, n. [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
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.
The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. --Hallam.
3. Incomplete correspondence.
Assonance between facts seemingly remote. --Lowell.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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