ASSONANCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

Synonyms:

assonance; vowel rhyme

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("assonance" is a kind of...):

rhyme; rime (correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds))

Derivation:

assonant (having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables)

assonant (having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables)

assonate (correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance)