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assonance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | vowel rhyme |
| Type of | rhyme, rime |
| Derivation | assonant, assonate |
Examples of assonance
assonance
Important phonaesthetic devices of poetry are rhyme, assonance and alliteration.
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Margolin's work pioneered the use of assonance and consonance in Yiddish verse.
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Assonance can also be used in forming proverbs, often a form of short poetry.
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In some folk songs assonance, alliteration, and onomatopoeia are also used.
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King simply changed the names of the mountains and used much more alliteration and assonance.
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It is sometimes stated that ancient Hebrew texts demonstrate assonance more often than rhyme.
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The last stanza Pie Jesu abandons rhyme for assonance, and, moreover, its lines are catalectic.
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The poem incorporates a complex reliance on assonance, which is found in very few English poems.
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In more modern verse, stressed assonance is frequently used as a rhythmic device in modern rap.
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- The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
- (assonant) having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables; "note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'"
- Assonance is the refrain of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. For example, in the phrase "Do you like blue? ...
- The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry
- (assonant) Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds
- The repetition of vowel sounds in a literary work, especially in a poem. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Bells" conains numerous examples. ...
- The rhyming of a word with another in one or more of their accented vowels, but not in their consonants; sometimes called vowel rhyme.
- The recurrence of a similar sound in several words close together. Unlike alliteration, this sound need not be the initial letter of a word. ...
- The rhyming or repetition of vowels within words. It is used to create a melodious effect, often in poetry), e.g. 'wide' and 'time'. The device only occasionally results in the rhyming of words.
