Word Meaning

assonance definition and meaning

n. Resemblance of sound.
n. A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.
n. Incomplete correspondence.