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assonance
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
assonance
(noun)
assonance
/
ˈ
æsənəns/
noun
assonance
/
ˈ
æsənəns/
noun
Britannica Dictionary definition of ASSONANCE
[
noncount
]
technical
:
the use of words that have the same or very similar vowel sounds near one another (as in “summer fun” and “rise high in the bright sky”)
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