assonance
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See also: assonancé
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French assonance, from Latin assonāre.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈæsənəns/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɛsɘnɘns/
Noun[edit]
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assonance (countable and uncountable, plural assonances)
- (prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
- Synonym: vowel rhyme
- 1938, T.H. White, chapter 12, in The Sword in the Stone, Collins:
- "You should try to speak without assonances" said Merlyn. "For instance, 'The beer is never clear round here, dear' is unfortunate, even as an assonance.'"
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Translations[edit]
repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds
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Further reading[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio: (file) - Homophones: assonancent, assonances
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
Noun[edit]
assonance f (plural assonances)
Verb[edit]
assonance
- inflection of assonancer:
Further reading[edit]
- “assonance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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