avicster said – Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:55:47 -0000 ( Link )
The title is rather self-explanatory, but still here’s a refresher:
Alliteration is the repeated occurrence of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in the same phrase. An example is the Mother Goose tongue-twister, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers …”. usually used as a form of figurative language.
In poetry, alliteration may also refer to repetition of a consonant in any syllables that, according to the poem’s meter, are stressed as if they were word-initial, as in James Thomson’s verse “Come…dragging the lazy languid Line along”.
Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, such as,
A cloud of eider down draws around me softening the sound – “A pillow of winds” by Pink Floyd
With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground. – “Law (Earthlings on Fire)” by David Bowie
So people, pick as per preference, muse about the blues or whatever cooks your goose.
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