Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance
Alliteration, assonance, and consonance
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Poets, authors, and song writers use
these as tools.
Educated people recognize and
appreciate these.
These have to do with repeating word
sounds.
Alliteration
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Repetition of initial consonant sound.
A consonant is not a vowel.
Example
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.
Consonance
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Repetition of a consonant sound that is
not at the beginning of the word.
A consonant is not a vowel.
Example
All mammels named Sam are clammy.
“Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile” - Fugees
Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sound.
Vowels = a, e, i, o, u
Examples
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“That solitude which suits abstruser
musings” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 “Hear the mellow wedding bells.” — Edgar
Allen Poe
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“Dead in da middle of little Italy, little did we know that we
riddled some middle men who didn't do diddily." – Big Pun
Review
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Alliteration is repetition of initial
consonant sound.
Consonance is repetition of consonant
sound at the middle or end of words.
Assonance is repetition of vowel
sounds.