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assonance|ˈæsənəns|
[a. F. assonance (cf. Sp. asonancia), as if ad. L. *assonāntia, f. assonāre to sound to, respond to, f. as- = ad- to + sonāre to sound.]
1. Resemblance or correspondence of sound between two words or syllables.
1727Chambers Cycl. s.v., Assonance..where the words of a phrase, or a verse, have the same sound or termination, and yet make no proper rhyme. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IX. xiv. vii. 222 The numerals are so nearly akin that there would be a close assonance if not identity in the words. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 327 Homer..seems fond of playing with assonances. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 623 Incessant assonances and balances of clauses and expressions.
2. a. Pros. The correspondence or riming of one word with another in the accented vowel and those which follow, but not in the consonants, as used in the versification of Old French, Spanish, Celtic, and other languages.
1823T. Roscoe Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) I. iii. 85 Assonance or the rhyming of the terminating vowels. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. I. ii. 165 In their lighter poetry the Spaniards frequently contented themselves with assonances..as duro and humo, boca and cosa. 1861March Eng. Lang. (1862) 403 The rule of assonance..requires the repetition of the same vowels in the assonant words, from the last accented vowel inclusive. Thus man and hat, nation and traitor, penitent and reticence, are assonant couples of words. 1879H. Nicol in Encycl. Brit. IX. 633 In the Roland such assonances occur.
b. In extended use: = half-rhyme; the correspondence or rhyming of one word with another in the final (sometimes also the initial) consonant, but not in the vowel. Also applied by philologists, in studying rhyming pairs of words (i.e. with identical vowel), to final consonants of such similarity of articulation as to be acceptable, with poetic licence, in a rhyming position.
1917R. Graves Let. c. 22 Dec. in W. Owen Lett. (1967) 595 You [sc. Wilfred Owen] have found a new method and must work it yourself—those assonances instead of rhymes are fine. 1920E. Blunden in Athenæum 10 Dec. 807/1 The discovery of final assonances in place of rhyme may mark a new age in poetry. 1934C. Day Lewis Hope for Poetry iii. 17 His [sc. Wilfred Owen's] one innovation is the constant use of the alliterative assonance as an end rhyme—(mystery, mastery; killed, cold). Ibid. x. 72 Owen's alliterative assonance. 1948G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics 20 Assonance sometimes takes the place of rhyme; the most frequent examples are of m : n and ng : nd (e.g. tyme : pyne). 1960E. G. Stanley Owl & Nightingale 112 An example..of assonance on dentals. 1960D. S. R. Welland Wilfred Owen vi. 116 Not only in its use of the ‘mean/moan/men’ assonance does this passage anticipate ‘Insensibility’.
3. A word or syllable answering to another in sound.
1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 491 Clopas or Chalpai is a Hebrew name, of which Alphæus is the current assonance.
4. transf. Correspondence more or less incomplete.
1868J. Stirling in N. Brit. Rev. XLIX. 387 With an assonance to reality everywhere. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 41 Assonance between facts seemingly remote. |