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Example of alliteration and assonance. Wear the dress here there and everywhere. But finding examples of assonance can be trickier than finding alliteration since the vowel sounds are often only heard when read aloud. Assonance is a noun.

The first four words of this title repeat the sound of the consonant s even though the word Cynthia begins with a different consonant. The m sound is repeated. Alliteration is the repetition of one or more initial sounds usually consonants in words within a line.

For example in the line My rabbit whacked my ear the. Alliteration is used in both prose and verse it is commonly used in tongue-twisters as well. This short video with alliteration and assonance examples shows you how to use these types of f.

Assonance Alliteration and Consonance Alliteration. Alliteration is a literary technique derived from Latin meaning letters of the alphabet It occurs when two or more words are linked that share the same first consonant sound such as fish fry Some famous examples of alliteration. The A sound in mad and bat are the assonance.

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Because repeated vowel sounds can create rhymes assonance is often found in poetry. For example in My puppy punched me in the eye the words p uppy p unched are alliterative because they both begin with p Assonance is when a writer repeats the vowel sounds. This passage is a good example of the fact that alliteration doesnt have to be strictly between adjacent words.