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• s  having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables
  note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'
• s  having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables

• Like Proseman Ernest Hemingway, Poet MacLeish writes in a masculine style of quiet violence: his sparsely punctuated assonant verse often sounds as if it were spoken out of the .
• To brassily assonant music, he rages at a social landscape scarred by greed, fame % mongering, obsessive love -- all the strategies of self.