Assonance

What is Assonance?

Assonance is also called 'vowel rhyme'. Assonance is the repetition of a pattern of similar sounds within a sentence.

Examples of using Assonance with sound:

• Do you like blue? - using 'o', 'ou', 'ue'
• He received three emails today. - using 'e', 'ei', 'ee' and 'e'
• The sailor said ‘hey’ to Mae in passing. - using 'ai', 'ey' and 'ae'

Assonance is used in poetry to create different effects. It is used to produce a form of rhyme throughout the whole sentence not just within the verse.

Why don’t you try writing using assonance and enter it into one of our writing competitions?

Adjective

Alliteration

Anthology

Assonance

Chorus

Consonance

Enjambment

Envoi

Foot

Hyperbole

Iambic Pentameter

Kenning

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Personification

Poetry

Poetry Slam

Powerful Verb

Prose

Refrain

Repetition

Rhyme

Rhyming Couplets

Rhythm & Meter

Simile

Stanza

Syllable

Verb

Verse