Definition of assonance

In the literary context there are different figures of speech that allow you to take care of the quality of a text from the aesthetic point of view. A figure that produces a special beauty to a text is assonance. Through this figure, the author of a text can generate a sound effect to the message through the repetition of sounds that cause a musical effect from the repetition of a phrase members.
This resource that can be used especially in poetic prose brings harmony to the text. This resource type shows that it is not only important what he says an author but also the way in which expresses it. Through the use of this resource the author wants to give a poetically beautiful shape to your words.

Sound effect in the text

The assonances acquire meaning in the literary field while that in colloquial conversation, the search for this resource may be corny. These style resources make that words express something in itself beyond the meaning of the word.
Assonance is a resource widely used also in the composition of Spanish lyrics when the melodies get a musicality that is easily memorable phrases ending in words that rhyme in rhyme. In the current poetry, is rare in poetry assonances use since the proximity in the text of words that have a similar sound can cause some tiredness. I.e., the assonance itself and in the right context, well used, is very beautiful. But when abused in excess of this stylistic resource, then, it is possible to produce some tiredness in the reader. If you do this, the reader are more attentive to the own rhyme to the meaning of the poetic message.
In which case, it seeks the possibility of replacing one of these words that sound in a different way through the construction of free rhyming verses. Poetic tastes are also marked by the subjectivity of the reader. There are poets who writing a poem especially care that the text does not contain assonances and correct them.