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Assonance is a sound trick in poems and song lyrics: nearby words share the same or very similar vowel, while the around it can be different. Born and warm are a pair — the vowel in the middle is doing the same work, even though the words do not fully rhyme. Rhyme is stricter: the last strong vowel and everything after it should match (light / night). Alliteration is the other neighbour: same starting sound (wild wind). Assonance sits in the middle, and you hear it as a soft echo more than as a neat click. Poets use it on purpose; everyday speech has it by accident and nobody names it. It is a literature-class word, not a café word. If a teacher asks how a line “sounds warm,” they may be pointing at assonance, not at a full rhyme.
半諧音（詩裡母音相近；不是日常說的「諧音梗」）
組成From French assonance, from Latin assonāre. By the look of the English word: a- + son- (“sound”) + -ance (the state of doing or having that).
同家族的字
- consonancesame son- piece, “sound”; consonance is matching consonant sounds in nearby words
- dissonancesame son- piece; dissonance is sounds that clash
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
assonancenoun/ˈæsənəns/
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human-scienceslinguisticsphonologyThe repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
- "You should try to speak without assonances" said Merlyn. "For instance, 'The beer is never clear round here, dear' is unfortunate, even as an assonance.'"
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。