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assonance

Assonance is a figure of speech that is found more often in verse than in prose. It refers to the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.

Example:

"That solitude which suits abstruser musings" - The Princess VII.203 by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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