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Definition of assonance noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

assonance

noun
 
/ˈæsənəns/
 
/ˈæsənəns/
[uncountable] (specialist)
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  1. 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 see also alliterationTopics Languagec2
    Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, from Latin assonare ‘respond to’, from ad- ‘to’ + sonare (from sonus ‘sound’).
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