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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 .
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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 Poe’s “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 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