A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which 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.
repetition of a vowel sound, as with the a sound in ace/eight/say.
(LDOCE) [U] similarity in the vowel sounds of words that are close together in a poem, for example between "born" and "warm".
The effect created when words with the same vowel sound are used in close proximity - but where the consonants in these words are different. In To Autumn by John Keats the line: 'Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;' displays assonance due to the repeated use of the 'i' vowel sound. This means that these words nearly rhyme with each other. Another example of assonance occurs in Rupert Brooke's poem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester:'Green as a dream and deep as death.'
repetition of vowel sounds in a line or series of lines; can affect pace and the way words included in the pattern seem underscored
repetition of a vowel sound in a series of words
the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
A repetition of vowel sounds.
Repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same, used to emphasize important words in a line. For example – asleep under a tree.
A form of internal rhyme in which vowel sounds repeat in a single line of verse. Here is an example, from Heaney's translation of Beowulf, line 1061: "will njoy and ndure more than nough." See also alliteration.
repetition of vowel sounds: " pple-dawn-drawn F lcon."
a method of adding pleasurable sound to a poem by placing similar sounding vowel sounds in proximity of each other.
Repeating, within a line or phrase, the same vowel sounds in words that have different consonants (The mad cat ran.)
The same / similar sound used in syllables of words near each other
ad 'to' + sonare 'sound'; 'to sound in answer'; ¥b¿Óµ): Repetition of vowel (¥Àµ/¤¸µ) sounds, e.g. 'They flee from me that sometime did me seek.'.
The use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words. Often used in poetry. For example: mystery/mastery or time/light.
the repetition of vowel sounds
The effect created when words with the same vowel sound are used in close proximity - but where the consonants in these words are different. In To Autumn by John Keats the line: 'Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;' displays assonance due to the repeated use of the 'i' vowel sound. This means that these words nearly rhyme with each other. Other examples include:'Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped' from Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen Or 'Round and round the spicy downs the yellow Lotos-dust blown.' from Tennyson's The Lotos-Eaters.
the repetition of an initial vowel sound, or vowel rhyming eg. the brown cow cowered.
the repetition of vowel soounds in words
repetition of similar vowel sounds, e.g. profound roundel
Repeating the same vowel sounds in words that have different consonants within a line or phrase. For example: The hawk cawed at dawn.