assonance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AS'SONANCE, noun [Latin ad and sono, to sound. See Sound.] Resemblance of sounds. In rhetoric and poetry, a resemblance in sound or termination, without making rhyme.
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