What's the difference between assonance and rhyme?

Assonance


Definition:

  • (n.) Resemblance of sound.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Incomplete correspondence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Tau model of phenotypic transmission has been used to analyze the familial correlations (nuclear families and extended families) of longevity at Arthez d'Asson (individuals born between 1686 and 1899).
  • (2) Specific analysis is focused on those stretches of speech which exhibit perseveration to the point where there is an excessive amount of alliteration and assonance.
  • (3) The always-problematic comparison between the marriage equality movement and the fight for black civil rights hits a point of assonance in just how difficult it would be for social conservatives to make any kind of national stand on the issue – and in the near-complete disinterest among Democratic gay marriage opponents in, you know, making a big deal about it.
  • (4) But it would be lovely to think frontier outlaws really did blurt out stanzas complete with carefully thought-out assonance and metre, so we'll let it pass.

Rhyme


Definition:

  • (n.) An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.
  • (n.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.
  • (n.) Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
  • (n.) A word answering in sound to another word.
  • (n.) To make rhymes, or verses.
  • (n.) To accord in rhyme or sound.
  • (v. t.) To put into rhyme.
  • (v. t.) To influence by rhyme.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was no rhyme or reason to the prices he wanted to pay.
  • (2) Before the season, each subject performed an exercise test, and the maximal capacity of oxygen uptake was estimated according to Astrand and Rhyming.
  • (3) Right-handed undergraduates concurrently performed two tasks: a lateralized semantic or rhyme task and a verbal memory task.
  • (4) Following a string of controversies about offensive remarks, Clarkson was put on final warning by the BBC in May, after unbroadcast Top Gear footage of him mumbling the N-word during the rhyme “Eeny, meeny, miny moe” was leaked.
  • (5) Retarded readers were poorer than both control groups in consonant deletion, while there was no difference between the groups on a rhyme-judgement task and a syllabic-vowel-reproduction task.
  • (6) In the footage, published on the newspaper's website , Clarkson appears to recite the beginning of the children's nursery rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe..." before appearing to mumble: "Catch a nigger by his toe."
  • (7) In the unaired version – which was later passed to the Mirror – the presenter then appears to recite the children's counting rhyme and use the N-word under his breath before pointing at the Toyota and shrugging: "Toyota it is."
  • (8) Visually similar letter pairs facilitated responses to rhyming pairs and inhibited responses to nonrhyming pairs.
  • (9) There were no significant effects of rhyme on performance at either age.
  • (10) The Fairbanks Rhyme Test was filtered into two bands-240-480 Hz (low band) and 1020-2040 Hz (high band).
  • (11) The dichotic rhyme task's normative data results and sensitivity to lack of callosal transmission make it worthy of further clinical and basic research.
  • (12) In the third experiment, subjects learned pairs in which the stimuli were single letters; then subjects transferred to a list in which either rhyming or unrelated stimuli began with the same letters.
  • (13) But non-gaming children’s channels are also popular: the biggest channel on YouTube in October was toy-unboxing channel DC Toys Collector , with nursery-rhyme channel Little Baby Bum also in the top five on YouTube that month.
  • (14) Young adults recalled more base-words, associates, and rhymes than elderly subjects on immediate free and cued tests and on an uncued test one week later.
  • (15) The minister grew up in South Carolina, the son of a professional boxer, and said Ali had always inspired him – especially his penchant for rhythm and rhyme.
  • (16) In Experiment 1, which used content words as stimuli, the deep dyslexic, like normal subjects, showed faster reaction times on trials with rhyming, similarly spelled stimuli (e.g.
  • (17) The Google Music offering comes with exclusive content from the Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Busta Rhymes, Shakira, Pearl Jam and the Dave Matthews Band.
  • (18) In contrast, the results of Experiments 1-4 indicate that rhyme-related concepts are encoded and interfere with memory for the presented target only when subjects explicitly attend to the rhyme dimension.
  • (19) The effects of cue-load and cue-type (category and rhyming) on the cued recall of word lists were examined in amnesic and control subjects under conditions where contextual information was either important or superfluous to recall.
  • (20) In this study, segmental lengthening in the vicinity of prosodic boundaries is examined and found to be restricted to the rhyme of the syllable preceding the boundary.