Assonance

['æs(ə)nəns] or ['æsənəns]

Definition

(noun.) the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words.

Editor: Margie--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Resemblance of sound.

(n.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh 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.

(n.) Incomplete correspondence.

Typist: Lucinda

Definition

n. a correspondence in sound: in Spanish and Portuguese poetry a kind of rhyme consisting in the coincidence of the vowels of the corresponding syllables without regard to the consonants as in mate and shape feel and need.—adjs. As′ssonant resembling in sound; As′sonantal As′sonantic.—v.t. As′sonate to correspond in sound.

Editor: Lyle