Helen Fenton

Assonance: Definition and part of speech

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Assonance

  1. n. Incomplete correspondence.
  2. n. Resemblance of sound.
  3. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Assist: Definition and part of speech

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Assist

  1. v. i. To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.
  2. v. t. To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.
  3. v. i. To lend aid; to help.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.