assimilation
/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/noun
High School
1
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
2
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
3
The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
4
A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
5
The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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Rhymes
Words that share the same ending sound pattern
Alliteration
Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)
Assonance
Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing