Assonance
noun
The similarity in sound between vowels in nearby words.
The phrase 'go slow' is an example of assonance.
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Poetic
noun
Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words.
The poem made use of assonance with repeated 'ee' sounds.
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- assonance in sentence
- using assonance
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Literary
noun
The similarity in sound between vowels in nearby words.
The phrase 'go slow' is an example of assonance.
Often appears as...
- assonance example
- assonance in poetry
Usage tips
Poetic
noun
Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words.
The poem made use of assonance with repeated 'ee' sounds.
Often appears as...
- assonance in sentence
- using assonance
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Poetic Device
Assonance adds rhythm and musicality to poetry, making it pleasing to hear.
Hear the mellow wedding bells.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Rhyming
Unlike rhyme, assonance doesn't match consonant sounds, so it's a softer, more subtle effect.
I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.
Pro Tip 3/3Mood Creator
Assonance can convey specific moods or emotions by repeating certain vowel sounds.
The light of the fire is a sight that inspires.
Pro Tip 1/3Poetic Device
Assonance adds rhythm and musicality to poetry, making it pleasing to hear.
Hear the mellow wedding bells.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Rhyming
Unlike rhyme, assonance doesn't match consonant sounds, so it's a softer, more subtle effect.
I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.
Pro Tip 3/3Mood Creator
Assonance can convey specific moods or emotions by repeating certain vowel sounds.
The light of the fire is a sight that inspires.
Pro Tip 1/3Poetic Device
Assonance adds rhythm and musicality to poetry, making it pleasing to hear.
Hear the mellow wedding bells.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Rhyming
Unlike rhyme, assonance doesn't match consonant sounds, so it's a softer, more subtle effect.
I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.
Pro Tip 3/3Mood Creator
Assonance can convey specific moods or emotions by repeating certain vowel sounds.
The light of the fire is a sight that inspires.
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Video examples
The pleasure of poetic...
Oh, there goes rabbit, he choked, he so mad but he won't give up that easy, no, he won't have it, he knows his whole back's to these ropes." The alternating assonance creates its own rhythm, and invites us to try our own voices in echoing it.
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The pleasure of poetic...
Oh, there goes rabbit, he choked, he so mad but he won't give up that easy, no, he won't have it, he knows his whole back's to these ropes." The alternating assonance creates its own rhythm, and invites us to try our own voices in echoing it.
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Quote examples
Donald Hall
American Poet
New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.
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Carrie Brownstein
American Musician
I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to them. I think that we are best with a little bit of... a caustic attitude and tone.
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Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
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Austin Clarke
Irish Poet
Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.
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Donald Hall
American Poet
New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.
Quote examples
Carrie Brownstein
American Musician
I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to them. I think that we are best with a little bit of... a caustic attitude and tone.
Quote examples
Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
Quote examples
Austin Clarke
Irish Poet
Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.
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