assonance
    n 1: the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables
         of successive words [syn: assonance, vowel rhyme]

Assonance \As"so*nance\, n. [Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant.]
   1. Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of
      `sheath' and `sheathed.'" --Steevens.
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   2. (Pros.) 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.
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            The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. --Hallam.
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   3. Incomplete correspondence.
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            Assonance between facts seemingly remote. --Lowell.
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