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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.