{"id":18332,"date":"2021-04-28T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18332"},"modified":"2021-04-28T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:42:19","slug":"word-internal-sound-repetition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2021\/04\/28\/word-internal-sound-repetition\/","title":{"rendered":"Word-internal sound repetition?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Is there a name for a kind of quasi-rhyme where a sound or syllable is repeated, but not in as organized a way as it is in rhyme?<\/p>\r\n<p>As you may know, two words rhyme if all the sounds from the final accented vowel to the end of the word are the same. (For details, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/11\/02\/rhyme\/\">column R<\/a>.)<\/p>\r\n<p>There are other terms for various kinds of sound repetition, such as <i>alliteration<\/i> (repeating the initial sounds of words), <i>assonance<\/i> (repeating vowel sounds), and <i>consonance<\/i> (repeating consonant sounds). The kind of thing that I\u2019m thinking of is kind of a generalization of assonance and consonance, but not limited to only vowels or only consonants.<\/p>\r\n<p>Here\u2019s an example (made up by me):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Yes, I guess I\u2019m stressed, Princess, but less stressed than I was after yesterday\u2019s fortress-rescue mess by the estuary.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>That repeated <i>ess<\/i> sound combines a vowel sound with a consonant sound, so I guess it\u2019s a combination of assonance and consonance. But is there a single term that applies here?<\/p>\r\n<p>My dictionary seems to indicate that <i>assonance<\/i> can be used more generally than only to apply to repeated vowel sounds, so maybe the answer is that this is assonance. But I welcome further thoughts and discussion about this.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhyme","category-sound"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18334,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332\/revisions\/18334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}