| n. | 1. | Resemblance of sound. |
| 2. | (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which 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; | |
| 3. | Incomplete correspondence. |
| Noun | 1. | assonance - the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words Synonyms: vowel rhyme |