Assonance

Word ASSONANCE
Character 9
Hyphenation as so nance
Pronunciations /ˈæsənəns/

Definitions and meanings of "Assonance"

What do we mean by assonance?

Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in. noun

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. noun

Rough similarity; approximate agreement. noun

Resemblance of sounds. noun

Specifically In prosody, a species of imperfect rime, or rather a substitute for rime, especially common in Spanish poetry, consisting in using the same vowel-sound with different consonants, and requiring the use of the same vowels in the assonant words from the last accented vowel to the end of the word: thus, man and hat, penitent and reticence, are examples of assonance in English. noun

Agreement or harmony of things. noun

Synonyms Paronomasia, etc. See pun. noun

Resemblance of sound. noun

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. noun

Incomplete correspondence. noun

The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry. noun

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

The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.

Why the fuck are you searching this on Urban Ditionary, You got problems!! The relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage, thus a vowel rhyme, as in the words, date and fade. Urban Dictionary

Negative acts or behaviors Urban Dictionary

Literally means "Ass sounds" or sounds emitted from the ass. Urban Dictionary

The term that suggests that an assassination was completed in a sexy manner. Urban Dictionary

Similar to Alliteration Insults, but based on vowel-sounds instead of consonants. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Assonance

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The word "assonance" in example sentences

When the initial letters are vowels, the gimmick is called assonance. ❋ William Safire (2004)

On "Irish Bulls" [VERBATIM II, 1, 1] and the German bull, by an odd coincidence of assonance, the German word for this linguistic extravagance is Verbalhornen. ❋ Unknown (1976)

The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds with different consonants is called assonance: en Español ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is always an element of subjectivity in a judgement about alliteration as indeed also about other effects, such as assonance and rhyme. ❋ DC (2007)

But the two verbs nuach and nacham have a kind of assonance, they sound somewhat alike, and Lamech played upon this similarity in a perfectly permissible pun. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)

Assonance, in its stricter sense, means the repetition of an accented vowel (blackness -- dances), while the succeeding sounds vary, but the terms "assonance" and "consonance" are often employed loosely to signify harmonious effects of tone-color within a line or group of lines. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)

The kind of assonance avoided was identity of final sounded consonants in successive words, _e. g._, lane, vine. ❋ Various (1889)

He explains terms such as assonance and consonance through the lyrics of Keats and Eminem ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are other forms such as assonance (repeating vowel sounds such as boot, tune, fool) and consonance (repeating consonant sounds such as but, feet, knot) and meter (repeating stress patterns as we've discussed). ❋ Unknown (2008)

(They seem not to be linked by the three rarer types of sound-repetition known as assonance, preliteration, and consonance -- as in tid-bit, sad sack, or big lug. ❋ Unknown (1974)

You see things to which you were previously blind; you uncover a play on words, assonance, alliteration, analogies. ❋ Justin Snider (2011)

He is more interested in what he calls micromessages, which "often feature the formal traits of poetry: rhyme, alliteration, assonance, structural parallelism." ❋ Daniel Akst (2011)

But there's a small buzz of an echo in the final consonants, as well as the half-hidden assonance of "rays" and "pale." ❋ Eric Ormsby (2011)

Throw in some assonance and onomatopoeia for a laugh. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The choice and accuracy of details, the slight touches and vivid images, the assonance and consonance flowing with ease, make it a little masterpiece. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[example] of [assonance] "that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented [sea]" ❋ Varun.B.S (2006)

Her assonics [reveal] that her life is [an empty] [shell]. ❋ Lawchick23 (2011)

I had beans and dark beer for lunch and everyone was [getting sick] of my [assonance]. The [resonating] sound emitting from his ass is called assonance. ❋ McCrazy (2007)

Hey, did you hear about [the president], [the sun] of a bitch did not even have to [courtesy] to assonate him he just shot him. ❋ 46cjb (2010)

[Turd Burglar] [Hand Shandy] [etc] ❋ Dr Pinch (2004)

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