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	Assonance - LoveToKnow 1911
		In other words, assonance is an improper or imperfect form of rhyme, in which the ear is satisfied with the incomplete identity of sound which the vowel gives without the aid of consonants.
		Like alliteration, assonance is a very frequent and very effective ornament of prose style, but such correspondence in vowel-sound is usually accidental and involuntary, an instinctive employment of the skill of the writer.
		Assonance as a conscious art, in fact, is scarcely recognized as legitimate in English literature.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Assonance (645 words)

	virtuaLit: Elements of Poetry
		Assonance occurs when the vowel sound within a word matches the same sound in a nearby word, but the surrounding consonant sounds are different.
		The function of assonance is frequently the same as end rhyme or alliteration: All serve to give a sense of continuity or fluidity to the verse.
		Assonance might be especially effective when rhyme is absent: It gives the poet more flexibility, and it is not typically used as part of a predetermined pattern.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /virtualit/poetry/assonance_def.html (128 words)

	TAXI FAQs: Songwriting: Assonance, Alliteration, and Payoff Lines
		Assonance and Alliteration are just fancy names for specific ways to use the sound of words to add interest to your lyrics.
		Assonance is the technique of incorporating the same sounds on the stressed vowels of two or more words to create added interest aurally.
		When alliteration and assonance are used effectively, they sound so natural and organic to the lyric that they are barely noticed.
	www.taxi.com /faq/songwriting/lyrics-payoff.html (474 words)

	Features of Quranic Style: Chapter 5, Bell's Introduction to the Quran
		What one finds rather is assonance, in which short inflectional vowels at the end of a verse are disregarded, and for the rest, the vowels, particularly their length, and the fall of the accent, that is the form of the end-word of the verse, are of more importance than the consonants.
		In sura 99 we have a similar assonance, formed by a long accented a å, followed by a short syllable, and the feminine suffix ha - hå, that is alaha - ålahå, the ha - hå being in one verse replaced by the plural suffix -hum.
		These detachable rhyme-phrases-most of which carry the assonance in i æ(1)-tend to be repeated, and to assume a set form which recurs either verbally or with slight changes in wording.
	www.truthnet.org /islam/Watt/Chapter5.html (5646 words)

	Assonance
		Assonance occurs in Frost but not as effectively and deliberately as in Swinburne, Tennyson and others who used it as part of their poetic theory.
		Assonance and consonance can be found in Frost, but more incidentally.
		Frost's idea of sound culminates in his own theory which he called "the sound of sense." This is a tricky thing to understand, but it is important to understand definitive assonance and see that Frost is not practicing it.
	www.frostfriends.org /assonance.html (434 words)

	assonance (poetic term)
		Assonance differs from RHYME in that RHYME is a similarity of vowel and consonant.
		Assonance is a common substitution for END-RHYME in the popular ballad, as in these lines from "The Twa Corbies":
		Assonance is involved in "bows" (pronounced "boughs") and "down"; "flened," "last," "thrashing," "hair," "whale," and "rang"; "took" and "look"; and "trodden" and "cobbles." (In passing one might also note the pattern of ALLITERATION in this stanza and that the RHYMING of look with luck is an example of consonance.)
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/88/assonance.html (227 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for assonance
		ASSONANCE Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language...
		The basis of 'traditional' prosody in English is the classification of verse according to the syllable stress of its lines.
		A frequently used poetic device, it is often discussed with assonance (the repetition of stressed vowel sounds within two or more words with different end consonants) and consonance (the repetition of end...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=assonance (672 words)

	The UVic Writer's Guide: Assonance and Consonance
		Assonance is the sequential repetition of vowel sounds, particularly in stressed syllables, as in the line "Full fathom five thy father lies," in which "fathom" and "father" and "five" and "lies" have paralleled vowel sounds.
		Consonance is the repetition of a pattern of consonants within words in which the separating vowels differ, as in the pairs "leaf" and "loaf" or "room" and "roam."
		Note that sound, not spelling, is the criterion for consonance, as of alliteration and assonance.
	web.uvic.ca /wguide/Pages/LTAssonConson.html (107 words)

	Assonance
		Assonance (asonancia or rima asonante) is a type of rhyme where only the vowels rhyme”; or are similar-sounding; consonants are ignored.
		Feminine assonance (asonancia feminina): This is two-syllable rhyme, where the rhyme words are stressed on the next-to-last syllable and have two parallel vowels (a stressed vowel plus an unstressed one; consonants are ignored).
		Originally, assonance was found at the end of long lines of poetry, and the line had a pause or break in the middle of it called a caesura (cesura).
	users.ipfw.edu /jehle/poesia/asonanci.htm (482 words)

	Mrs. Dowling's Literature Terms-Assonance
		Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound within words.
		In poetry, too, assonance stresses words and moods.
		Night came on, and a full moon rose high over the trees into the sky, lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day.
	www.dowlingcentral.com /MrsD/area/literature/Terms/assonance.html (140 words)

	Addicted to Songwriting Article: Assonance & Payoff Lines
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		In each instance, use the tool of assonance or alliteration to add interest to the line--while still maintaining a natural, conversational meaning.
		Assonance Example: Strong--I'm too strong to go on like this.
	www.addicted-to-songwriting.com /article-aapl.html (437 words)

	assonance - OneLook Dictionary Search
		ASSONANCE : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		Assonance : Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples [home, info]
		Words similar to assonance: assonant, assonantal, vowel rhyme, more...
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	RHYME, RIME, ASSONANCE, CONSONANCE. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
		Words that rhyme have both assonance and consonance.
		To have assonance, words must have identical vowel sounds in their final syllables, as in set, intend, and fresh (SET, in-TEND, FRESH); to have consonance, words must have identical consonant sounds ending their final syllables, as in balloon, marine, and tan (buh-LOON, muh-REEN, and TAN).
		To have rhyme, the final syllables of line-ending words in two or more verses must end in both consonance and assonance, as in spleen, tureen, and obscene (SPLEEN, tuh-REEN, uhb-SEEN).
	www.bartelby.com /68/58/5158.html (181 words)

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