Understanding alliteration, assonance and consonance and their functions in poetry
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Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance in Poems
Assonance and consonance in a poem Poems use assonance
and alliteration to enhance the rhythm of the poem . While assonance makes use of vowel sounds,
alliteration makes use of consonant sounds. Both assonance and consonance are repeated in words that
appear close to each other in a line of a poem. Read the poem below and identify
assonance and consonance . Path Choices Best, Boy,
Believe That,
There, Two Placed,
Possible, Paths Willing,
Wanting, Waiting Appraising,
Asking, Applying Lessons,
Learned, Leads Compass,
Chosen, Course Fools,
Find, Fate Sin,
Street, Set Driven,
Determine, Destiny Searching,
Seeking, Seeing Offering,
Openly, Often In the poem above,
some words are starting with the same consonant sounds. For example B est, Boy, B elieves – sound /b/ has
been repeated. P laced, P ossible, P aths – sound /p/ is repeated This
repetition of initial consonant sounds is alliteration . Illustrate other instances of alliteration in
the poem. In the poem, we also
find that some vowel sounds are repeated in
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