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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Assonance \As"so*nance\, n. [Cf. F. assonance. See {Assonant}.]
1. Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of
`sheath' and `sheathed.'" --Steevens.
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2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last
accented vowel and those which 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.
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The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. --Hallam.
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3. Incomplete correspondence.
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Assonance between facts seemingly remote. --Lowell.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
assonance
n 1: the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables
of successive words [syn: {assonance}, {vowel rhyme}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
