ASSONANCES
- ASSONANCE, the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words [n]
- 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)
- ASSONANCE, vowel-rhyme, coincidence of vowel sound without regard to consonants [n]