This document defines and provides examples of three literary devices: alliteration, assonance, and consonance. Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds, assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, and consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words. Examples of each device are drawn from Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" to illustrate their uses in poetry.

1. Alliteration, Assonance
& Consonance

2. ALLITERATION
Alliteration is the repetition of the same
sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at
the beginning of words or in stressed
syllables of an English language phrase.

3. ASSONANCE
Assonance is the repetition of vowel
sounds to create internal rhyming within
phrase or sentences, and together with
alliteration and consonance serves as one
of the building blocks of verse. Assonance
is a rhyme, the identity of which depends
merely on the vowel sounds.

4. CONSONANCE
Consonance is a poetic device
characterized by the repetition of the
same consonant two or more times in
short succession, as in "pitter patter" or
in "all mammals named Samare
clammy“

5. From The Seven Ages of Man by William Shakespeare
Alliteration Assonance Consonance
• Turning again
towards childish
treble, pipes
• For his shrunk
shank
• With eyes
severe, and
beard of formal
cut
• Into the lean and
slipper’d
pantaloon

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