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Assonance

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Noun

1. assonance, vowel rhyme

the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Assonance

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noun
1. 
the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
2. 
partial correspondence; rough similarity

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Assonance

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noun
1. 
likeness of sound, as in a series of words or syllables
2.  Prosody
repetition of a vowel sound in stressed syllables in which the consonant sounds are unlike (Ex.: late, make)

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Assonance

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n.
1. Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in: "that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea" (William Butler Yeats).
2. The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills.
3. Rough similarity; approximate agreement.

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