assonance

See also: assonancé

English

Etymology

From French assonance, from Latin assonāre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈæsənəns/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɛsɘnɘns/

Noun

Examples (prosody)
Lifting its big glinting wing, it hit. How now, brown cow?

assonance (countable and uncountable, plural assonances)

1. (prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.

   Synonym: vowel rhyme

   • 1938, T.H. White, chapter 12, in The Sword in the Stone, Collins:

     "You should try to speak without assonances" said Merlyn. "For instance, 'The beer is never clear round here, dear' is unfortunate, even as an assonance.'"

Related terms

• assonant

Translations

repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds

• Albanian: asonancë (sq)
• Bulgarian: съзвучие (bg) n (sǎzvučie)
• Catalan: assonància f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 類韻／类韵 (lèiyùn), 半諧音／半谐音 (bànxiéyīn), 准押韻 (zhǔnyāyùn), 元韻／元韵 (zh) (yuányùn)

• Czech: asonance f
• Dutch: assonantie (nl) f
• Finnish: assonanssi
• French: assonance (fr) f
• Georgian: ასონანსი (asonansi)
• Ido: asonanco (io)
• Indonesian: asonansi (id), purwakanti (id)
• Irish: amas m
• Japanese: 類韻 (るいいん, ruiin), 半諧音 (はんかいおん, hankaion)
• Javanese: ꦥꦸꦂꦮꦏꦤ꧀ꦛꦶ (purwakanthi)
• Kazakh: ассонанс (assonans)
• Malay: asonansi, runtun vokal
• Maori: oropuare tārua, oropuarerua
• Polish: asonans (pl) m, asonacja f (rare), asonancja f (rare)
• Russian: ассона́нс (ru) m (assonáns)
• Spanish: asonancia (es) f
• Swedish: assonans (sv) c
• Tagalog: parihunig
• Turkish: asonans (tr)
• Welsh: cyseinedd f
• Yoruba: àwítúnwí fáwẹ̀lì

See also

• alliteration
• dissonance
• consonance

Further reading

• assonance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Homophones: assonancent, assonances
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

assonance f (plural assonances)

1. assonance

Verb

assonance

1. inflection of assonancer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “assonance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.