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assonance: Meaning and Definition of

as•so•nance

Pronunciation: (as'u-nuns), [key]
— n.
  1. resemblance of sounds.
  2. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
  3. partial agreement or correspondence.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
See also:
assoluta assort
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