Assonantal
resemblance of sounds.
also called vowel rhyme. prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
partial agreement or correspondence.
historical examples
in the modern irish language the verse rhymes are -ssonantal.
english as we speak it in ireland p. w. joyce
noun
the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
partial correspondence; rough similarity
n.
1727, “resemblance of sounds between words,” from french -ssonance, from -ssonant, from latin -ssonantem (nominative -ssonans), present participle of -ssonare “to resound, respond to,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + sonare “to sound” (see sonata). properly, in prosody, “rhyming of accented vowels, but not consonants” (1823).
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