Assonance
in poetry, a term used when the terminating words of lines have the same vowel sound, but make no proper rhyme.
ASSOUAN (as-ö-än'), (also ESWAN; the ancient Syene), is the southernmost city of Egypt proper, on the right bank of the Nile. There are some remains of the ancient city. In the neighborhood are the famous granite quarries from which so many of the huge obelisks and colossal statues were cut to adorn the temples and palaces of ancient Egypt.
It is from Syene that this kind of granite came to be known as syenite. Pop. about 17,500.
ASSOUAN DAM. Its construction was begun in February, 1899. It was formally opened Dec. 8, 1902. This dam accomplished more for the promotion of agriculture along the banks of the Nile in Egypt than anything attempted in centuries. The dam formed a reservoir containing one million tons of water. It had 180 sluice openings. The water thrown back up-country brought 300,000 additional acres under cultivation. In 1907-1912, the dam was raised 16½ feet, more than doubling the water supply.