assonance
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“That’s part of what makes hip-hop so much fun, are the internal assonances of it, and they did an incredible job of maintaining that.”
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022
I used to be able to sit quietly in the window seat, or on the bench under the same window in the long summer, and whittle away at words, frown over rhyme schemes and assonances.
From The Verge • Mar. 31, 2018
Its assonances as elegantly crafted as anything in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.
From Time • Mar. 1, 2013
Arlen's music, with its long lines and innovative assonances, wasn't likely to coexist in the Age of Rock.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rhyme is unknown in the Bible, but the assonances which occur may easily run into rhymes.
From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Abrahams, Israel
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