Assonance vs. Consonance

Assonancenoun

(prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.

Assonancenoun

Resemblance of sound.

Assonancenoun

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.

Assonancenoun

Incomplete correspondence.

Assonancenoun

the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

Assonancenoun

resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled)

Assonance

Assonance is a resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables either between their vowels (e.g., meat, bean) or between their consonants (e.g., keep, cape). However, assonance between consonants is generally called consonance in American usage.

Consonancenoun

(prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.

Consonancenoun

Harmony; agreement; lack of discordance.

Consonancenoun

Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.

Consonancenoun

Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness.

Consonancenoun

Friendship; concord.

Consonancenoun

the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words

Consonancenoun

the property of sounding harmonious