Assonance
A repetition of vowel sounds within syllables with changing consonants.
Example
Hear the mellow wedding bells. — Edgar Allan Poe
Try to light the fire.
Rumbling thunder
He gave a nod to the officer with the pocket.
Mankind can handle most hassles.
Tilting at windmills
[n] the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
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alliteration, blank verse, chime, clink, consonance, crambo, dingdong, double rhyme, drone, eye rhyme, harping, humdrum, jingle, jingle-jangle, monotone, monotony, near rhyme, paronomasia, pitter-patter, pun, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitivene