ADJECTIVE
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having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables
note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills' - having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables
How To Use assonant In A Sentence
- The word topsy entered the English language in 1528 as part of the assonant adverb topsy-turvy. No Uncertain Terms
- According to conventional wisdom, the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, a dashing American explorer with a satisfyingly assonant name who later went on to be the Governor of Connecticut and a US Senator. Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Who really discovered Machu Picchu?
- At what point did he see that the two important women in the novel, Amy and the "delighting" young writer Jamie Logan — the object of Zuckerman's dead-end desire — have usefully assonant names? The Rake’s Progress Giving Up The Ghost
- Anyhoo, the sequence finds a new pattern in the regularity of two "couplets" of sonnets (1122), the opening sonnet marking the shift with assonant rhymes (I did reckon those rhymes gave a sense of instability and tension, pushing against the constraints, which ... fitted here; it kinda makes sense now why I felt that way). Still Lives
- Respite comes, as one might expect with Dickens, in equally phonemic terms, floated upon (in that same paragraph) the sibilant, assonant, and iambic bonding of "inseparable and blessed" to describe the union of the title figure and Arthur Clennam, the man whose fetishistic vision of her impoverishment has seen her until now as a Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
- Although Eric Earling is a name, albeit assonantal, is one which might pose a greater difficulty in mocking for those without a post-primary school education or a person with an anti-piscatory bent. Sound Politics: Did Darcy Burner Vote Republican in the 2000 Presidential Primary?
- The story gave newspapers the opportunity to use their two favourite words together, resulting in the gleefully assonant “Terror Blunder”. Terror Blunder joy
- "What is the word for which you are seeking an assonant? Hip-Hop Lit: New and Noteworthy
- The assonant low short u vowel sound darkens the tone of this eerie image: smudged, thumbs, guns, fluttered. Katherine Parrish reads Lisa Foad
- Coco has alliterative and assonantal qualities that also make it memorable from an aural standpoint.