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assonance Definition


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assonance
noun
    1. prosody.
      A correspondence or resemblance in the sounds of words or syllables, either between their vowels, eg in meet and bean, or between their consonants, eg in keep and cape. Compare alliteration, rhyme.
Etymology: 18c: from Latin assonare to sound.



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