assonance

assonance has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words