vowel rhyme


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Noun1.vowel rhyme - the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
assonance
rhyme, rime - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
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(2) It is primarily a generative model in which the most basic rhyme, the simple rhyme, is a final vowel rhyme which may or may not have a final rhyming consonant or consonant cluster.
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also called vowel rhyme. In prosody, repetition of stressed vowel sounds within words with different end consonants, as in the phrase "quite like." In this sense, assonance is to be distinguished from regular rhyme, in which initial consonants differ but both vowel and end-consonant sounds are identical, as in the phrase "quite right."
assonance
Tiedt differentiates between words which demonstrate 'consonantal rhymes', 'vowel rhymes', and those having 'a repetition of the same syllable' (tautonyms).
Singularly Imperfect Tautonyms

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