Question

assonance alliteration
examples:
» go and mow the lawn.
» engineers steered the vehicle.
» dont go tomorrow.
examples:
» the curious cat smiled.
» betty bought some butter.
» she sells seashells.
why use alliteration and assonance? many authors and poets use sound devices to enhance the meaning of their words or to set a mood. when assonance is used, it draws attention to words and is often employed poetically. similarly, alliteration is commonly used in prose writing, for instance in newspaper headlines that are intended to be memorable.
task one: the following are extracts from poems. identify if they contain alliteration or assonance. and underline the matching sounds.
example: \with blinding sight / blind eyes could blaze\ (dylan thomas). - alliteration

1. \the river murmured\ (jeffrey farnol). _
2. \with bloody blameful blade he bravely broached\ (shakespeare) alliteration
3. \he gives his harness bells a shake\ (robert frost) _
4. \a host, of golden daffodils\ (william wordsworth) _
5. \the day of his death was a dark cold death.\ (w. h. auden) alliteration
6. \that dolphin - torn, that gong - tormented sea.\ (w. b. yeats) _
7. \fly oer waste fens and wincy fields.\ (alfred tennyson) alliteration
8. \mary sat musing on the lamp - flame at the table.\ (robert frost) _
9. \on a proud round cloud in white high night\ (e. e. cummings) _

task two: write 5 sentences using alliteration:

1. _
2. _
3. _
4. _
5. _

now write 5 sentences using assonance:

1. _
2. _
3. _
4. _
5. _

Explanation:

Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely - connected words. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. For Task One, we check each line for these sound patterns. For Task Two, we create sentences with the respective sound patterns.

Answer:

Task One:

1. Assonance (river murmured has 'ur' vowel sound repetition)
2. Assonance (gives, harness, bells has 'e' vowel sound repetition)
3. Assonance (golden, daffodils has 'o' vowel sound repetition)
4. Assonance (dolphin - torn, gong - tormented has 'o' vowel sound repetition)
5. Assonance (sat, musing, lamp, flame has 'a' vowel sound repetition)
6. Assonance (proud, round, cloud, white has 'ou' and 'i' vowel sound repetition)

Task Two - Alliteration:

1. Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers.
2. Sally sells sea - shells by the sea - shore.
3. Three grey geese in a green field grazing.
4. Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear; fuzzy wuzzy had no hair.
5. She sells sun - screen on the sandy shore.

Task Two - Assonance:

1. I rose and slowly rowed the boat.
2. The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
3. Go and mow the lawn before it grows.
4. I saw a saw that could saw any saw I ever saw.
5. He ate the cake and drank the sake.