Assonance & Alliteration | Week 5, Lesson 3 | Grade 9
Assonance and Alliteration are two features of language that writers, especially poets, use. They are meant to engage a reader’s auditory (i.e, listening) skills while also making the writing they are used in sound musical and fun to read. Assonance and Alliteration are mainly different in terms of what letter type is repeated and where. Since poetry and prose use them heavily, they can be a little hard to distinguish to most people. What is Alliteration? Alliteration is a literary style that deals with the repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds. (All letters of the Alphabet, other than Vowels, are consonants) It makes a line fun to read and usually repeats the consonant sounds in a word, usually in the beginning those words, but may occur at any point. You may be familiar with this famous example of Alliteration from the old tongue-twister "Peter the piper". E.g #1 - " P eter p iper p icked a p epper; p ut it in a p epper p ot", is the Guyanese ...