assonance

[As·so*nance]

"Blue cartoons play through the boob tube" is an example of assonance when a bunch of words in a row share similar sounds (like the “oo” sound in the quote).

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Resemblance of sound.

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


n.
Resemblance of sound.

n.
A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh 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.

n.
Incomplete correspondence.


Assonance

As"so*nance , n. [Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant.] 1. Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of sheath' and sheathed.'" Steevens. 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.
The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard.
3. Incomplete correspondence.
Assonance between facts seemingly remote.

Resemblance of sound.

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