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What does assonance mean?

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Noun
  1. (prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
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All that assonance and alliteration, though not perfectly obvious, come to hand fairly readily.
I realize that theories are the shield which rises up and conceals the reality and the union and the assonance between two spirits.
Most rap still follows the initial formula of rhymed couplets that casually mix full rhyme with assonance.
She thinks constantly in metaphors, in assonance, in pretty words that don't mean anything, in ugly words that mean everything.
This is not to say that most poets do not utilize such tools as metaphor, simile, assonance, and other poetic techniques.
There's even some assonance in those words that make them all the more compatible.

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