Dissonance vs. Assonance: What's the Difference?

Dissonance and Assonance Definitions
Dissonance
A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.
Assonance
Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in
"that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea" (William Butler Yeats).
Dissonance
Lack of agreement, consistency, or harmony; conflict
"In Vietnam, reality fell away and dissonance between claim and fact filled the void" (Michael Janeway).
Assonance
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.
Dissonance
(Music) A combination of tones contextually considered to suggest unrelieved tension and require resolution.
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Assonance
Rough similarity; approximate agreement.
Dissonance
A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.
Assonance
(prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
Dissonance
(music) Conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding.
Assonance
Resemblance of sound.
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Dissonance
A state of disagreement or conflict.
Assonance
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.
The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard.
Dissonance
(countable) An instance of disharmony or disjunction; a clash.
Assonance
Incomplete correspondence.
Assonance between facts seemingly remote.
Dissonance
A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.
Filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
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Assonance
The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Dissonance
Want of agreement; incongruity.
Dissonance
A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
Dissonance
The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience;
Modern music is just noise to me
Dissonance
Disagreeable sounds