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Alliteration, Consonance, and Assonance
Alliteration
• Repetition of the same consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of the words
• Example: - Should the glee-glaze- - In Death’s–stiff-stare.
Alliteration
• Find the alliteration in “Sweetness, Always”
“Verses of pastry which melt into milk and sugar in the mouth.”
Alliteration
• Yay, you found the alliteration! …Hopefully
“Verses of pastry which melt into milk and sugar in the mouth.”
Assonance
• The repetition of similar vowel sounds within syllables
Example: Beware of ex/cessive assonance.
Any assonance that draws attention to itself is ex/cessive.
Assonance
• Find the Assonance in this quote from “The Flea”
“Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, nay more than married are.”
Assonance
• Yay, you found it! …. Hopefully.
“Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, nay more than married are.”
• No matter where the similar sounds are found, as long as they are a repetition of the same vowel sound, they count!
Assonance Vs. Rhyme Scheme• What is the difference between
Assonance and Rhyme Scheme? • Although Rhyme Scheme is also the
same sounds, in rhyming those sounds are usually found at the end of the lines of the poem.
• Assonance can be found all throughout a poem, no matter where in the line.
Consonance
• Close repetition of the same consonant sounds, preceded by different vowel sounds
• Note: At the end of lines of poetry, this produces half-rhyme.
• Example: Flash and flesh. Breed and bread.
Consonance
• Find the Consonance in Our Homemade Limerick.
“Sometimes, I wish I could wash, My reds with my whites, Josh. In a flash they’d be done, If I washed them as one, But a pink they would be make as they swish swash, swish swash.
Consonance
“Sometimes, I wish I could wash, My reds with my whites, Josh. In a flash they’d be done, If I washed them as one, But a pink they would be make as they swish swash, swish swash.
Red – Consonance
Why are these important?
• Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance are all useful in literature because they create a general flow.
• They all add a sense of lyricism to a poem, or a song.
• Also, used in tongue twisters. Example: Sally sells sea shells by
the sea shore.