Dissonance vs. Assonance: What's the Difference?

A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.

Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in

Lack of agreement, consistency, or harmony; conflict

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills.

(Music) A combination of tones contextually considered to suggest unrelieved tension and require resolution.

Rough similarity; approximate agreement.

A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.

(prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.

(music) Conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding.

Resemblance of sound.

A state of disagreement or conflict.

A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which 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.

(countable) An instance of disharmony or disjunction; a clash.

Incomplete correspondence.

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

Want of agreement; incongruity.

A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience;

Disagreeable sounds