resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled)
A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.
Incomplete correspondence.
Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.
Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness.
Friendship; concord.
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Both words are sound devices typically used in poetry and song that serve as building blocks to verse.
【Assonance】 is the repetition of similar vowel sounds of words close together.
“Hear the mellow wedding bells.”—Edgar Allan Poe
【Consonance】 is the repetition of middle or ending consonant sounds of words close together.
“And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.”—Edgar Allan Poe
resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled)
A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.
Incomplete correspondence.
Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.
Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness.