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assonant

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

语气词,语气助词,辅音,韵母

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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

as inmelodious/melodic

Examples

  • Most of it is in the difficult assonant or vowel rhyme, hardly ever previously attempted in our language.

  • Bel crouches—as men have crouched to Bel; Nebo cowers—a stronger verb than crouches, but assonant to it, like cower to crouch.

  • It is written in the assonant, or vowel rhyme, that was universal among European nations in the early stage of their civilization.

  • The versification is careless; when rhyme hampered the poet he dropped it, and used instead the assonant rhyme.

  • I observed no instance of the assonant rhyme; but there are several glosses, or, in the Portuguese word, grosas.