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Rhyme's sneaky cousin — same consonants, vowels free to wander.
means Agreement or harmony between sounds, ideas, or things — in poetry, the repetition of consonant sounds around different vowels (think 'blank' and 'blink').
from From Latin consonantia, 'agreement in sound,' built from con- ('together') plus sonare ('to sound') — the same sonare that gives us 'sonic' and 'resonate.' Literally, things sounding together.
- example
- pitter patter shares t and r, not vowels
- cousin device
- assonance repeats vowels instead
- poet favorite
- creates rhyme-like echo without full rhyme
- common spot
- often hides at ends of stressed syllables