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Meaning of "assonance" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ASSONANCE

From French, from Latin assonāre to sound, from sonāre to sound.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ASSONANCE

assonance  [ˈæsənəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASSONANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Assonance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ASSONANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Assonance

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. Assonance is a rhyme, the identity of which depends merely on the vowel sounds. Thus, an assonance is merely a syllabic resemblance. Assonance is found more often in verse than in prose. It is used in English-language poetry, and is particularly important in Old French, Spanish and the Celtic languages.

Definition of assonance in the English dictionary

The definition of assonance in the dictionary is the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery. Other definition of assonance is partial correspondence; rough similarity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASSONANCE


consonance
ˈkɒnsənəns
dissonance
ˈdɪsənəns
dominance
ˈdɒmɪnəns
governance
ˈɡʌvənəns
immanence
ˈɪmənəns
impermanence
ɪmˈpɜːmənəns
inconsonance
ɪnˈkɒnsənəns
maintenance
ˈmeɪntɪnəns
misgovernance
ˌmɪsˈɡʌvənəns
mountenance
ˈmaʊntənəns
mountenaunce
ˈmaʊntənəns
ordonnance
ˈɔːdənəns
permanence
ˈpɜːmənəns
pertinence
ˈpɜːtɪnəns
remanence
ˈrɛmənəns
resonance
ˈrɛzənəns
sovenance
ˈsuːvənəns
sustenance
ˈsʌstənəns
thermoremanence
ˌθɜːməʊˈrɛmənəns
unisonance
juːˈnɪsənəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASSONANCE

associative
associative cortex
associative storage
associatively
associativity
associator
associatory
assoil
assoilment
assoilzie
assonant
assonantal
assonate
assort
assortative
assortatively
assorted
assortedness
assorter
assortive

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASSONANCE

advance
alternance
car maintenance
care and maintenance
clinical governance
corporate governance
countenance
electron paramagnetic resonance
electron spin resonance
finance
high-maintenance
luminance
magnetic resonance
nance
nuclear magnetic resonance
ordnance
penance
predominance
provenance
refinance
sonance

Synonyms and antonyms of assonance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «assonance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASSONANCE

Find out the translation of assonance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of assonance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «assonance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

谐音
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

asonancia
570 millions of speakers

English

assonance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वरों की एकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السجع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ассонанса
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

assonância
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বরসাদৃশ্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

assonance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Assonance
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Assonanz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

assonance
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

assonance
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Assonance
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vận nghèo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

assonance
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अभिव्यक्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

asonans
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

assonanza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

assonance
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ассонанса
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

asonanță
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρήχηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

assonansie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

assonans
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

assonance
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of assonance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSONANCE»

The term «assonance» is normally little used and occupies the 120.493 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSONANCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «assonance» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «assonance» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about assonance

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASSONANCE»

Discover the use of assonance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to assonance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming : a Step-by-step ...
Assonance Rhyme is simple vowel rhyme. The only thing the syllables share in common is their vowel sound. More precisely, in Assonance Rhyme, 1. The syllables' vowel sounds are the same 2. The consonants after the vowel are unrelated ...
‎1991
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The Song of Songs and Ancient Tamil Love Poems: Poetry and ...
Assonance The simplest definition of assonance is that it is "a form of vowel repetition." 10 Assonance in the narrower sense is "the likeness of vowels without that of the consonants in the end syllables of words." 1 1 From the psychological  ...
Abraham Mariaselvam, 1988
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Thinking French Translation
Repetition of sounds in words can generally be classified either as alliteration or as assonance. We define alliteration as the recurrence of the same sound or sound-cluster at the beginning of words occurring next to or near one another, as in ...
Sándor Hervey, Ian Higgins, 2003
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30 Graphic Organizers for Reading (Graphic Organizers to ...
This way, they will not become overwhelmed with new vowel sounds. • The Assonance Express helps students realize that vowels with the same pattern have the same sound. These similar sounds are an example of assonance. This will help ...
Christi E. Parker
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Poetry Writing, Grades 6-8 (Meeting Writing Standards Series)
Background for the Teacher Definition: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in words; consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the words. Materials Needed: Sounds the Same work sheet (page 24) ...
Kimberly A. Williams, 2000
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Thinking Arabic Translation: A Course in Translation Method: ...
7.1.1 Alliteration, assonance, and rhyme Repetition of sounds can generally be classified either as alliteration or as assonance. There are various current definitions of these terms. For this course, we shall define alliteration as the recurrence ...
James Dickins, Sándor Hervey, Ian Higgins, 2013
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Assonance (Linguistics)
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2010
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Descriptive Writing, Grades 6-8 (Meeting Writing Standards ...
Objective: The students will use alliteration and/or assonance to create emphasis in descriptive writing. Procedure 1. Write the following definitions of alliteration and assonance on the chalkboard: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant ...
Rebecca Rozmiarek, 2000
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
Ir. and Welsh, poets have continually employed assonance internally if not as a substitute for end rhyme. The term assonance was borrowed by Eng. from Sp. and Fr. to describe the various vocalic substitutes for rhyme in the Romance poetries ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
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Poetry For Dummies
Assonance When the same vowel sound is repeated in a group of neighboring words, it's called assonance. Listen for the assonance in Barbara Guest's poem “ Red Lilies”: snow erupts from thistle to toe; the snow pours out of you. Repeat ...
The Poetry Center, John Timpane, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASSONANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term assonance is used in the context of the following news items.
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From the archive, 6 July 1935: Chasing a tan in the New Bronze Age
But modern taste and practice disdain the canopy of leaf and the comfort of the shadow; more popular now is the torrid assonance of sun with ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Phonetic Yeetcraft
Pronounced and mispronounced on record, they spew assonance and alliteration and rhyme, twisting themes from the music into their rhythmic ... «Hyperallergic, Jun 15»
3
Viirlaid's Poetry in English
... Finno-Ugric folk song's mixture of visual images with the play of alliteration and assonance, a kind of an untranslatable “language poetry”. «Eesti elu, Jun 15»
4
BEHOLDER by Charlotte Fielden is Released
Fielden works in free verse, in which rhymes are jettisoned for a more modern palette of assonance and consonance with the occasional and ... «Broadway World, Jun 15»
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I've come to the conclusion the seer is quite mad - despite an …
... make himself sound biblical, and is very much aware of the impact of assonance and alliteration, I can't make any sense out of this prophesy, ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
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Weekend Planner — Music: Vocal chamber music concert includes …
... Elizabeth Bishop's poem “The Fish” is sufficiently rich in assonance and other musical elements to attract the attention of a talented composer ... «GazetteNET, Jun 15»
7
Number Ones: Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood', The Fourth Single …
He's able to paint evocative pictures with his words, manipulating assonance and alliteration with the ease of a born poet, and he's ... «Junkee, Jun 15»
8
Bro-Country Is a Plague, and Florida Georgia Line Is Patient Zero
He uses slant rhymes, internal rhymes, assonance, and consonance in an unspoken homage to Eminem. Meanwhile Kelley's guitar often ... «New Times Broward-Palm Beach, May 15»
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DeepBeat can write its own hip hop lyrics and may eventually sing …
The software looked for lyrics that had assonance, where similar vowel sounds are repeated – such as 'slang' and 'gang'. It also looked for ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
10
Artificial Intelligence Rapper Ready To Battle with Humans
Assonance rhyming isn't relegated to the ends of lines, and can be included within a line -- a string of words with similar vowel sounds. «Sci-Tech Today, May 15»

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