assonance

From French assonance, from Latin assonāre.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈæsənəns/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɛsɘnɘns/

assonance (countable and uncountable, plural assonances)

1. (prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
   • 1938, T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone, Collins, Chapter 12.

     "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.'"

• assonant

• alliteration
• dissonance
• consonance

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• Homophones: assonancent, assonances
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

assonance f (plural assonances)

1. assonance

assonance

1. inflection of assonancer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “assonance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.