Crossword-Solution: ASSONANCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Assonance | n. | Resemblance of sound. |
| Assonance | n. | A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. |
| Assonance | n. | Incomplete correspondence. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “ASSONANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ... using ___: "Gladys had a bantam lamb / Its hide was white as rice" | 1 answer |
| Alternative to rhyme | 1 answer |
| Attribute of poet's lines/Whose final words are not quite rhymes | 1 answer |
| Correspondence in sound | 1 answer |
| Likeness of sound. | 1 answer |
| Partial rhyme. | 1 answer |
| Relative of alliteration | 1 answer |
| Resemblance of sound | 1 answer |
| Resemblance of sounds, a substitute for rhyme. | 1 answer |
| Resemblance of sounds. | 1 answer |
| SYLLABLES, resemblance of sound between two | 1 answer |
| ALLITERATION | 2 answers |
| SOUND resemblance | 2 answers |
| prosody | 12 answers |
| Representation | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASSONANCE (5)
The beauty of the contents of a phrase, or of a sentence, depends implicitly upon alliteration and upon assonance.
But he could appreciate the charm of the _Cynghanedd_, the alliterative assonance which is still the most distinctive feature of Welsh poetry.
The verse, which was chanted, is not rhymed as a rule, but each _laisse_, or screed, as in the "Chanson de Roland," runs on the same final assonance, or vowel sound throughout.
How little had been learnt of the true history of language a century ago may be seen from a little book by Stephen Weston first published in 1802 and several times reprinted, where accidental assonance is considered sufficient to establish connection.
Dinted, dimpled, wimpled--his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point.
Quotes with ASSONANCE (3)
Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.
A poem must be authentic. It could be flowery, it could have the most brilliant metaphor, it could be bursting with onomatopoeia and alliteration, assonance and consonance, hyperbole and paradox, from every end, it could have daring syntax and clever cacophony, it could have a neat and ordered rhyme scheme... but, if it loses its authenticity, its ability to convey the very heart and soul of the poet, then all the euphony and cacophony in the world cannot make up for the loss…
The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1953–2017).