What is "assanance"

It is "assonance":


here you go:

assonance

in prosody, repetition of stressed vowel sounds within words with different end consonants, as in the phrase "quite like." It is unlike rhyme, in which initial consonants differ but both vowel and end-consonant sounds are identical, as in the phrase "quite right." Many common phrases, such as "mad as a...
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Resemblance or correspondence in sound. hEnglish - advanced version

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assonance
\as"so*nance\ (&?, n. [cf. f. assonance. see assonant.]
1. resemblance of sound. "the disagreeable assonance of ?'sheath' and ?'sheathed.'" --steevens.
2. (pros.) a peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. the assonance is peculiar to the spaniard.
3. incomplete correspondence. assonance between facts seemingly remote.
assonance
n : the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words [syn: vowel rhyme]



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WordNet 2.0

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Noun
1. the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
(synonym) vowel rhyme
(hypernym) rhyme, rime
(derivation) assonate

And some more definiotions from Google (typed in assonance + definition)

http://www.answers.com/topic/assonance

http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/assonance

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/assonance.html

That's one messed up quotation.

I'm not sure if the author, in saying that "assonance is peculiar to the spaniard," was making a statement of fact or attempting to create an assonant sentence. If the latter, the author failed. If the former, then I don't think assonance is peculiar to Spanish. If I recall correctly, Anglo-Saxon poetry (such as "Beowulf") was based on assonance rather than rhyme.

I agree with Joe that "assonance" is not peculiar to Spanish only, but to all latin languages I know.
Even in Russian they have the word : Assonansa.

Nah - it was just an illustration, I believe.

Badly done indeed

Just illustrating that there are different idseas about it.

(And hadn't realised just how loopy that one was!)