| VERB | stative | assonate | correspond in vowel sounds |
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| Meaning | correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "The accented vowels assonated in this poem" | |
| Broader | rhyme, rime | Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable |
| Spanish | asonar | |
| Adjectives | assonant | having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables |
| assonant | having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables | |
| Nouns | assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
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