ASSONANCE
- the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words [n ASSONANCES]
- In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence)
- vowel-rhyme, coincidence of vowel sound without regard to consonants [n -S]