ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called initial alliteration. Repeated consonant sounds in the middle or at the ends of words is called internal alliteration. Repetition of vowel sounds is called assonance. Consonance is a repetition of consonant sounds.

Detailed explanation-2: -alliteration, in prosody, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables. Sometimes the repetition of initial vowel sounds (head rhyme) is also referred to as alliteration.

Detailed explanation-3: -Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alliteration and assonance do not have to have the same letters; just the same sounds. So for example, “falling phone” is alliterative and “flying high” is assonant, because they repeat the same sounds even though they don’t repeat the same letters.

Detailed explanation-5: -Alliteration is usually described as the repetition of the same consonants, and assonance as the repetition of the same vowels.