Alliteration, Consonance & Assonance
Alliteration is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby words. The terms is usually applied to consonants, and only when the recurrent sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word.
Alliteration is used for special stylistic effects, such as to reinforce meaning, to link related words, or to provide tone colour and enhance the intensity of enunciating the words. Consonance is the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowel e.g. live-love, lean-alone, pitter-patter. Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowels - especially in stressed syllables - in a repetition of nearby words.
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