单词 | assonance |
释义 | assonance From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Literature, Textures, sounds Linguisticsassonanceas‧so‧nance /ˈæsənəns/ noun [uncountable] technicalSLsimilarity in the vowel sounds of words that are close together in a poem, for example between ‘born’ and ‘warm’Examples from the Corpusassonance• There is a recurrence of the e-a assonance at the ends of lines, but in no definable pattern.• Are there any phonological patterns of rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc?• The photographs are linked across the book by fleeting resemblances, oppositions, repetitions, the pictorial equivalents of assonance and half-rhyme.Origin assonance (1700-1800) French Latin assonare “to answer with the same sound”, from ad- “to” + sonare “to sound” |
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