1. Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance ISAT Prep

2. 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.

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

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 sound. 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 sound. Consonance is repetition of consonant sound at the middle or end of words. Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds.