ASSONANCE,in Rhetoric and Poetry, a term used where the Words of a Phrase, or a Verse, have the same Sound or Termination, and yet make no proper Rhyme. See RHYME.
These are usually vicious in English; though the Romans sometimes used them with Elegance: As, "Assistent comparavit, Exercitum ordinavit, Acies lustravit." The Latins call it "similiter cadens"; and the Greeks όμοιοτελευτον. See HOMOIOTELEUTON.
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