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assonance

/as-uh-nuhns/US // ˈæs ə nəns //UK // (ˈæsənəns) //

语气词,同义词,同音字,押韵

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : resemblance of sounds.
    • : Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
    • : partial agreement or correspondence.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Max Fish and Snow are wed by more than their iambic assonance.

  • Sometimes they enshrine a pun or a conceit, or depend for their aptness upon an assonance.

  • Assonance, in poetry, a term used when the terminating words of lines have the same vowel sound but make no proper rhyme.

  • It is written in stanzas of various length, bound together by the vowel-rhyme known as assonance.

  • Not only is there no rhyme, but assonance is very carefully avoided.

  • Paradise Lost abounds with the assonance which the dominant feeling of the poet induced.