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The seven ages of man

Assonance alliteration
What are alliteration, assonance and consonance ?
When analysing poetry your primary-school child might mention alliteration, assonance and
consonance. We explain what they've been taught to look out for in literacy lessons

What is alliteration?
Alliteration is the repetition of an initial letter or sound in closely connected words (for example, in the
sentence: 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.', many of the words start with the letter p).

Alliteration is often used in poetry to create an effect. The repeated sound is in the stressed syllable of
the word: The dreaded dawn arrived

It is sometimes used in children's songs:

Pease porridge hot,
Pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot,
Nine days old.

Assonance
Definition of assonance
Assonance is a literary device in which the repetition of similar vowel sounds takes place in two
or more words in proximity to each other within a line of poetry or prose. Assonance most
often refers to the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words that do not end the same. For
example, “he fell asleep under the cherry tree” is a phrase that features assonance with the
repetition of the long “e” vowel, despite the fact that the words containing this vowel do not
end in perfect rhymes. This allows writers the means of emphasizing important words in a
phrase or line, as well as creating a sense of rhythm, enhancing mood, and offering a lyrical
effect of words and sounds.

Common Examples of Assonance

Many common phrases utilize assonance. People use them in everyday speech for emphasis or to reflect
mood. Here are some examples of common uses of assonance:

 Son of a gun

 The cat is out of the bag

 Dumb luck

 After awhile, crocodile

 Chips and dip

 Cock of the walk

 Goodnight, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite

 Stranger danger

 Winner, winner, chicken dinner

 Motion of the ocean

 Keep your eyes on the prize

 Lean, mean, fighting machine

 Wild child

 Surf and turf

Consonant
noun

1. a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be
combined with a vowel to form a syllable.

"fricatives are by far the largest group of English consonants"

adjective

1. 1.

denoting or relating to a consonant sound or letter.

"a consonant phoneme"

in agreement or harmony with.

"the findings are consonant with other research"

Agreeing and disagreeing
Stating an opinion

Asking for opinion

Expressing agreement

Expressing disagreement

Interuptions

Settling an argument

Short history of punctuation

Greeks- capitalization (uppercase)

- No spaces
- Interchange the way of reading

Romans

- Dots, spaces, colons

Early middle ages

- Sentrence case
- Paragraphs
- Punctuation

Paraphrasing

Kennings

Journalist text

Literary text

Informative text

Poetry forms

Couplet

Tercet

Quatrain

Sested
Passive to active voice

Modals

Figures of speech

Kinds of rhyme

Beginning rhyme

Imitial rhyme

End rhyme

Prose

Complement

Direct object

Object of preposition

Appositive

Kind of stage

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