Assonance

The assonance (from the Latin assonare = " resonate ", from Latin ad = " to, at " and sonare = " sound ") is a vocalic half rhyme a literary style figure or a rhetorical decorative element, in which the stressed syllables of two or more neighboring words the same vowel sound ( phoneme ) have, for example, consumption / bond or return / blessing and Leda's swan / megastar.

The assonance was especially true in the vowel rich Romance and Celtic languages ​​in addition to the full rhyme as equal. They arose early in Spain ( Cantar de Mio Cid ) and widespread in the medieval Provencal (La Chanson de Roland ). In the Old High German poetry she joined Otfried of White Castle from Reimnot as impure precursor of Reims next to the Endsilbenreim.

It is used in poetry as a means of Versbindung, often alongside other rhyme type and there resembles the internal rhyme. The assonance is already used in the Old High German poetry at Otfried of White Castle and at least since the Romantic ( Tieck, Arnim, Brentano ) as one of the lyrical style most commonly used at all. Today she enjoys, often in combination with the vielsilbigen rhyme or alliteration, among other things, in rap great popularity.