Alliteration, Consonance,

Assonance

ISAT Prep

Alliteration, assonance, and

consonance

Poets, authors, and song writers

use these as tools.
Educated people recognize and
appreciate these.
These have to do with repeating
word sounds.

Alliteration

Repetition of initial consonant

sound.

Example
Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers.

Consonance

Repetition of a consonant sound that

is not at the beginning of the word.

Example
All mammels named Sam are
clammy.

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sound.

Examples

That solitude which suits abstruser

musings - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hear the mellow wedding bells.

Edgar Allen Poe

Review

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.

Assignment

Identify three examples of

alliteration, consonance, and
assonance in Poes The Raven.

include the line #

you may use the same line more than

once to identify separate sound
devices

Possible Answers

alliteration
Once, while, weak, weary (1)
nodded, nearly napping (3)
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream
before (20)

consonance
uncertain, rustling (12)
Raven, Nevermore (48)
rapping-rapping (4)

assonance
purple curtain (13)
unbroken, no token (26)
laiden , Aiden (93)

In more modern verse, stressed

assonance is frequently used as a
rhythmic device in modern rap.

"Their pens and pads I snatch 'cause I've

had it / I'm not an addict, fiending for
static / I see their tape recorder and I grab
it / No, you can't have it back, silly rabbit".
--Public Enemy

I bomb atomicallySocrates' philosophies

and hypotheses can't define how I be
droppin' these mockeries. Wu-Tang Clan

Dead in the middle of little Italy, little did

we know that we riddled two middle men
who didn't do diddily. --Big Pun
--Wikipedia.org