Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance
ISAT Prep
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.
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.
Example
All mammels named Sam are clammy.
Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sound.
Examples
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“That solitude which suits abstruser
musings” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Hear the mellow wedding bells.” —
Edgar Allen Poe
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.
Assignment
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Identify three examples of alliteration,
consonance, and assonance in Poe’s
“The Raven.”
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include the line #
you may use the same line more than once
to identify separate sound devices
Possible Answers
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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)
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assonance
“purple curtain” (13)
“unbroken, no token” (26)
“laiden , Aiden” (93)
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In more modern verse, stressed assonance is
frequently used as a rhythmic device in
modern rap.
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"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 atomically—Socrates' 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