2. Assonance
• In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in
nonrythming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo
discernible ( e. g., penitence, reticence ).
• Example :
• Go slow over the road
• Try as I might, the kite did not fly
3. Alliteration
• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or
closely connected words
• Examples:
• Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
• She sells sea shells by the sea shore
4. ACTIVITY!!!!!!!!!
Get a piece of paper and answer the following
• Directions : Write AS if Assonance and AL if Alliteration
• 1. Becky’s beagle barked and bayed. ____
• 2. Greedy goats gobbled up the gooseberries. ____
• 3. Hear the mellow wedding bells. ____
• 4. Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. ____
• 5. Try to light the fire. ____
