assonant

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Only the second and fourth lines rimed, and the rime was merely assonant or vowel rime.

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  1. Having a resemblance of articulate sounds. Landor's blank verse … is … terse, yet fluent, assonant, harmonious. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 46.
  2. In prosody, pertaining to or characterized by assonance.
  3. A word resembling another in sound. Specifically In prosody, a word forming an assonance with another word. See assonance, 2.

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  • The logo features a wolf howling at the moon, or possibly at Mrs Palin riding shotgun in a helicopter, which seems an assonant image for a warm, jolly teddy bear of a joint that palpably exists to please rather than to scalp. —  The Guardian World News
  • I feel like naysayers could call Finale faceless but then I'd point them toward the slick charisma of the hook on "Style," the gasping assonant second verse of "Motor Music," or be like just listen to the appropriately named, fundamentally hook-less "Heat," a four-minute rush of battle emceeing imbued with the weather and economy of Detroit but covering Barry Bonds and Iraq, casual sermonizing and preteens making out. —  Cokemachineglow.com
  • For example, in the phrase "Do you like blue?", the "oo" (ou / ue) sound is repeated within the sentence and is assonant. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • Only the second and fourth lines rimed, and the rime was merely assonant or vowel rime. —  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • Most of it is in the difficult assonant or vowel rhyme, hardly ever previously attempted in our language. —  Poems
 

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  1. from French assonant (= Spanish asonante = Portuguese assonante), from Latin assonan(t-)s, present participle of assonare, sound to, respond to: see assonate and sonant.
 

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