SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: ASSONANCE

 

SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY:   ASSONANCE

 

 

PRONUNCIATION:

 (AS-uh-nuhns)

MEANING: (noun):

The use of words with same or similar vowel sounds but with different end consonants.
Example: The o sounds in Wordsworth's "A host, of golden daffodils."

ETYMOLOGY:  Via french, from Latin ad-(to) + sonare (to sound). Ultimately from the Indo-European root swen-(to sound), sonic, sonnet, and unison. Earliest documented use: 1728.

 USAGE: "The   passage offers many beauties: the nearly incantatory repetition, the assonance (define and confine, streets and treat, space and faces), the homophones (rains and reins -- but not reigns?), the pun (no sign of motorway)."

Kevin Dettmar; Less Is Morrissey; The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, DC); Dec 9, 2013.  

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