assonance

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as·so·nance /ˈæsənəns/ noun [uncountable] 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〕

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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”

as·so·nance nounChineseSyllable  

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as‧so‧nance /ˈæsənəns/ noun [uncountable] technicalsimilarity in the vowel sounds of words that are close together in a poem, for example between ‘born’ and ‘warm’

as·son·anceBrE /ˈæsənəns/ 🔊NAmE /ˈæsənəns/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] (specialist) the effect created when two syllables in words that are close together have the same vowel sound, but different consonants, or the same consonants but different vowels, for example, sonnet and porridge or cold and killed 准押韵，半谐韵，半谐音（靠得很近的单词中有两个音节元音相同而辅音不同，或辅音相同而元音不同）  ➡  see also alliteration