Associations to the word «Assonance»

Wiktionary

ASSONANCE, noun. (prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.

Dictionary definition

ASSONANCE, noun. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats