assonance

Word family adjectiveassonantassonantalnounassonanceverbassonate

Related topics: Linguistics, Literature, Textures, sounds

as·so·nance /ˈæsənəns/ noun [uncountableU] technical

SLsimilarity in the vowel sounds of words that are close together in a poem, for example between ‘born’ and ‘warm’ 准押韵，半谐音〔如born和warm中的元音〕

Examples from the Corpus

assonance• There is a recurrence of the e-a assonance at the ends of lines, but in no definable pattern.• Are there any phonological patterns of rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc?• The photographs are linked across the book by fleeting resemblances, oppositions, repetitions, the pictorial equivalents of assonance and half-rhyme.

Origin assonance

(1700-1800) French Latin assonare “to answer with the same sound”, from ad- “to” + sonare “to sound”

单词	assonance
释义	assonance Word family adjectiveassonantassonantalnounassonanceverbassonate Related topics: Linguistics, Literature, Textures, sounds as·so·nance /ˈæsənəns/ noun [uncountableU] technical SLsimilarity in the vowel sounds of words that are close together in a poem, for example between ‘born’ and ‘warm’ 准押韵，半谐音〔如born和warm中的元音〕 Examples from the Corpus assonance• There is a recurrence of the e-a assonance at the ends of lines, but in no definable pattern.• Are there any phonological patterns of rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc?• The photographs are linked across the book by fleeting resemblances, oppositions, repetitions, the pictorial equivalents of assonance and half-rhyme. Origin assonance (1700-1800) French Latin assonare “to answer with the same sound”, from ad- “to” + sonare “to sound”
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