assonance

in a sentence

For instance, The beer is never clear near here, dear,' is unfortunate, even as an assonance.†  (source) T. H. White, The Once and Future King, 1939

The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the assonance dig repeated five or six times in different forms.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

The chapter might be omitted without any injury to the action of the poem, and besides the metre, style, conceits and images differ from the general tenour of the poem; and that continual repetition of the same sounds at the end of each hemistich which is not exactly rime, but assonance, reveals the artificial labour of a more recent age.†  (source) Ramayana, The Ramayana, -450 B.C.

One of these errors, chiefly prevalent in New England, is that the so-called Boston pronunciation, with its broad /a/'s (making /last/, /path/ and /aunt/ almost assonant with /bar/) comes down unbrokenly from the day of the first settlements, and that it is in consequence superior in authority to the pronunciation of the [Pg059] rest of the country, with its flat /a/'s (making the same words assonant with /ban/).†  (source) Henry L. Mencken, The American Language, 1919

"You should try to speak without assonances," said the wizard.†  (source) T. H. White, The Once and Future King, 1939

One of these errors, chiefly prevalent in New England, is that the so-called Boston pronunciation, with its broad /a/'s (making /last/, /path/ and /aunt/ almost assonant with /bar/) comes down unbrokenly from the day of the first settlements, and that it is in consequence superior in authority to the pronunciation of the [Pg059] rest of the country, with its flat /a/'s (making the same words assonant with /ban/).†  (source) Henry L. Mencken, The American Language, 1919

80s Hip-Hop stressed endpoints less and alliteration and assonance more.†