| 单词 | assonance |
| 释义 | assonance (once / 33578 pages) n "Blue cartoons play through the boob tube" is an example of assonance — when a bunch of words in a row share similar sounds (like the “oo” sound in the quote). In poetry, assonance is when vowels within a word rhyme with other words, and there are lots of examples. Here’s one from English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “That solitude which suits abstruser musings.” Say it out loud and you can hear assonance clearly. The word comes from the Latin assonare, which literally translates as “respond to.” If you’re reading a sentence, and the words sound like they’re responding to each other — you could be detecting assonance. WORD FAMILYassonance: assonances+/assonant: assonance USAGE EXAMPLES“The internal rhyme, the assonance, the consonance — you can see all that on the page,” Dettmar added. Los Angeles Times(Oct 13, 2016) “For instance, The beer is never dear near here, dear,’ is unfortunate, even as an assonance. T. H. White, The Once and Future King(1958) It is hard to read Churchill’s words and not hear their assonance. Economist(Apr 07, 2016) n the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words Syn|Hyper vowel rhyme rhyme, rime correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) |
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