Which term describes a similarity in sound between internal vowels?

• A. Assonance
• B. Alliteration
• C. Apostrophe
• D. Figure of Speech

Answer: (A)

This item is about assonance—the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words. Repeating internal vowel sounds creates a musical effect and a kind of internal rhyme in a line, rather than relying on the beginnings of words. For example, in the phrase “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain,” the same vowel sounds appear across several words, giving it that characteristic echo. This is different from alliteration, which focuses on repeating initial consonant sounds, like “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.” An apostrophe is a punctuation mark or a figure of speech that directly addresses someone or something absent, and a figure of speech is a broad category that includes many devices such as metaphor or simile, not specifically about repeating vowel sounds. So the term for a similarity in sound between internal vowels is assonance.