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"Assonance" Definition

noun

Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in: "that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea” ( William Butler Yeats).

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

Rough similarity; approximate agreement.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

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.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

Resemblance of sound in words or syllables.

Source: Merriam-Webster

Relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vowels.

Source: Merriam-Webster

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