Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance

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Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance

• ISAT Prep

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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.

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Alliteration

• Repetition of initial consonant sound.
• ????? ??? ??? ???? ?? ?????? ?? ?????
• A consonant is not a vowel.
• ????? ?????? ???? ??? ?????
• Example
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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Consonance

• Repetition of a consonant sound that is not at
  the beginning of the word.
• ????? ??? ???? ??? ??????
• A consonant is not a vowel.
• Example
• All mammels named Sam are clammy.

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Assonance

• Repetition of vowel sound.
• ????? ??? ?? ???? ????? ?? ????? ??????
• Vowels a, e, i, o, u
• Examples
• That solitude which suits abstruser musings
  
• Hear the mellow wedding bells.