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Definition of Assonances

1. assonance [n] - See also: assonance

Literary usage of Assonances

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"assonances. — Approximate rhymes, wherein the vowels only, or the consonants only, or vowels and consonants, coincide, are called assonances. ..."

2. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Sometimes they investigate the mechanism of the versification and hope to learn something from minute examination of Milton's stresses and ' assonances' and ..."

3. A Hand-book of the English Language: For the Use of Students of the by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"assonances.—Approximate rhymes, wherein the vowels only, or the consonants only, or vowels and consonants, coincide, are called assonances. ..."

4. On Early English Pronunciation: With Special Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, William Salesbury, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Francis James Child, Alexander Barclay, Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, Johan Winkler (1869)
"The marked peculiarity of the poem, and one which makes it worth while to notice it especially, is the prevalence of assonances, single, or double, that is, ..."

5. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, Francis James Child, William Salesbury, Alexander Barclay, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Johann Winkler (1869)
"The marked peculiarity of the poem, and one which makes it worth while to notice it especially, is the prevalence of assonances, single, or double, that is, ..."

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