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assonance - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'assonance' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Assonance [ n.]
- Resemblance of sound.
- 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.
- Incomplete correspondence.