Assonance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASSONANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• vowel-rhyme, coincidence of vowel sound without regard to consonants
• 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)
• rhyming of vowel sounds but not consonants
• Resemblance of sound.
• A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh 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.
• the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• resemblance of sound in words or syllables

Words related to ASSONANCE

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Words that contain ASSONANCE

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How to use ASSONANCE in a sentence

• ASSONANCE When the vowels from the accented syllable to the end of the word are the same, but the consonants are different, the rhyme is called assonance.
• In a final accented or unaccented syllable u and i are absorbed, for purposes of assonance, by a preceding or following a, o, or e.
• This distinction is of little value, however, for verses in simple and compound assonance alternate constantly.
• If the accented vowel is not a, the a of ai counts in the assonance.
• If the composition is short the same assonance may be kept throughout.
• It is sufficient that the even verses be in assonance and the uneven verses free.
• The even verses are usually in assonance, although the verses may have the rhyme-scheme a b a b.
• The even verses of each stanza have the same assonance throughout, as does the refrain.
• The even verses have the same assonance throughout.
• His hymn to Christ is not only full of assonance, but of all kinds of rhyme and even double rhymes.
• It should be noted that this poem has assonance of the odd and of the even lines.
• The lines are all seven syllables in length, save the final half-lines, and the assonance, which all but the half-lines observe, tends somewhat towards rhyme.

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