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assonance

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Max Fish and Snow are wed by more than their iambic assonance.

Sometimes they enshrine a pun or a conceit, or depend for their aptness upon an assonance.

Assonance, in poetry, a term used when the terminating words of lines have the same vowel sound but make no proper rhyme.

It is written in stanzas of various length, bound together by the vowel-rhyme known as assonance.

Not only is there no rhyme, but assonance is very carefully avoided.

Paradise Lost abounds with the assonance which the dominant feeling of the poet induced.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assonance, such as: chant, lyric, music, refrain, theme, and air.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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