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 in the middle or at the end of the word (vs. alliteration which is at the beginning)

• 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.