1. Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance

2. Alliteration, assonance, and consonance
Poets, authors, and song writers use these as tools.
These have to do with repeating word sounds.

3. Alliteration Repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sound.
A consonant is not a vowel.
Example
ex: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
ex: bright brilliant stars

4. Consonance
Repetition of a consonant sound that is not at the beginning of the word.
A consonant is not a vowel.
Example
All mammals named Sam are clammy.
“Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile” Fugees

5. Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds within words
Vowels = a, e, i, o, u
Examples
“That solitude which suits abstruser musings” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Hear the mellow wedding bells.” — Edgar Allen Poe
“Dead in da middle of little Italy, little did we know that we riddled some middle men who didn't do diddily." – Big Pun

6. Review Alliteration is repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Consonance is repetition of consonant sound at the middle or end of words.
Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds within words.