There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
ASSONANCE
assonance, vowel rhyme
(noun) the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
assonance (countable and uncountable, plural assonances)
(prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
Source: Wiktionary
As"so*nance, n. Etym: [Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant.]
1. Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of Steevens.
2. (Pros.)
Definition: A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.
3. Incomplete correspondence. Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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