assonance

Word family

as·so·nance /ˈæsənəns/ noun [uncountableU] technical

SLsimilarity in the vowel sounds of words that are close together in a poem, for example between ‘born’ and ‘warm’ 準押韻，半諧音〔如born和warm中的元音〕

Examples from the Corpus

assonance• There is a recurrence of the e-a assonance at the ends of lines, but in no definable pattern.• Are there any phonological patterns of rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc?• The photographs are linked across the book by fleeting resemblances, oppositions, repetitions, the pictorial equivalents of assonance and half-rhyme.

Origin assonance

(1700-1800) French Latin assonare “to answer with the same sound”, from ad- “to” + sonare “to sound”

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Corpus

BNC: 44062 COCA: 38977

assonance

Terms in phonetics: affricate, alveolar, articulator...