alliteration, clink, dingdong, eye rhyme, jingle, monotony, pitter-patter, repetitiousness, rhyme royal, single rhyme, stale repetition, trot
Definitionn. the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Last update: October 26, 2015
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The redaction of the whole work is due to Alexandre de Bernai, who replaced the original assonance by rhyme. [Please select]
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In a short poem the same assonance is often kept throughout the composition. [Please select]
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In _El Burro Flautista_ the assonance is that of the last syllable only, e. [Please select]
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"Play on, baker; but something for convalescence--the return of spring, the sweet assonance of memory." [Please select]
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A monstrous tin pan would have yielded as much assonance. [Please select]
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In the second reading he corrects a bad assonance thus: His only visitants a straggling sheep, The stone-chat, or the sand-lark, restless bird, Piping along the margin of the lake. [Please select]
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Another assonance is got rid of in the later editions, the "thistle thinly sprinkled o'er," and the passage now reads melodiously as follows: His only visitants a straggling sheep.' [Please select]
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