Assonance and Consonance

What is consonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry

• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry

• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry

• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

What poetry term is used when the same consonant sound is used many times in a line but at ANY PART of the words.

• consonance

• rhyme

• poetry

• alliteration

What is assonance?

• The repetition of vowel sounds in a line

• The repetition of consonant sounds in a line

• The repetition of any letter sounds in a line

Great, gregarious Gary from Gryffindor likes grapes.

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• consonance

• imagery

The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse.

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

The repetition in words of identical or similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds.

• assonance

• consonance

A type of rhyme when two or more words, close to one another, repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds.

• Consonance

• Assonance

The repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in words (Kate stayed late at the lake).

• Assonance

• Consonance

It bent in a slant against the weight.

• assonance

• consonance

• none

• rhyme

The sleeping geese recline their heads.

• assonance

• consonance

• none

• rhyme