Alliteration vs. Assonance
Alliterationnoun
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
Alliterationnoun
The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
Alliterationnoun
The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -
Alliterationnoun
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse;
Alliterationnoun
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Alliteration
In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently. As a method of linking words for effect, alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme.
Assonancenoun
(prosody) The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry.
Assonancenoun
Resemblance of sound.
Assonancenoun
A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.
Assonancenoun
Incomplete correspondence.
Assonancenoun
the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
Assonancenoun
resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled)
Assonance
Assonance is a resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables either between their vowels (e.g., meat, bean) or between their consonants (e.g., keep, cape). However, assonance between consonants is generally called consonance in American usage.
