assonance
/ˈæsəʊnəns/noun
mass noun
- the resemblance of sound between syllables in nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled).（相邻词音节间的）半谐音（尤指两个或几个重读元音押韵而辅音不押韵, 如 sonnet 和 porridge; 还指辅音相同而元音不同, 如killed, cold 和 culled）。
派生词
assonant
adjectiveassonate
/-neɪt/ verb词源
early 18th cent.: from French， from Latin assonare 'respond to'， from ad- 'to' + sonare （from sonus 'sound'）.