ALLITERATION & ASSONANCE

Alliteration & Assonance

Poets, authors, and song writers use these as tools.

Educated people recognize and appreciate these.

These have to do with repeating word sounds.

Alliteration

Repetition of initial consonant sound. A consonant is not a vowel.

Example Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled

peppers.

Alliteration

Blind to a broken man’s dream, a hard lesson

Court cases keep me guessin’ To Live and Die in LA – Tupac

It take too much to touch herFrom what I heard she got a baby by Busta

Gold Digger – Kanye West

Alliteration

I be the big, bad body rockin' Bombay to boulevard bully backBetter bring a bomb to the battlefieldBloody black beats bringing bottoms that boomBasically build barriers bewilder buffoons

Name that Alliteration

When it’s going good it’s going great

When it’s going good it’s going great

Name that tune (Hint: the title even has alliteration)

Love the Way You Lie

Name that Alliteration

I'm lost, you got me lookin' for the rest of meLove is testing me but still I'm losing it

I'm lost, you got me lookin' for the rest of meLove is testing me but still I'm losing it

SOS - Rihanna

Name that Alliteration

I'm a couple bands down and I'm tryin' to get backI gave Doug a grip, I lost a flip for five stacks

I'm a couple bands down and I'm tryin' to get backI gave Doug a grip, I lost a flip for five stacks

Run this Town – Jay Z

Name that Alliteration

Run just as fast as I canTo the middle of nowhereTo the middle of my frustrated fears

Run just as fast as I canTo the middle of nowhereTo the middle of my frustrated fears

Pink – Just like a Pill

Assonance

The repetition of similar vowel sounds within syllables (middle of the word)

Vowels = a, e, i, o, u

Examples “That solitude which suits abstruser

musings” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Hear the mellow wedding bells.” — Edgar

Allen Poe “Dead in da middle of little Italy, little did

we know that we riddled some middle men who didn't do diddily." – Big Pun

Assonance

• I ain't here to argue about his facial featuresOr here to convert atheists into believersI'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way I need Jesus

• And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame. When he came, in the game, he made his own lane. Now all I need is y'all to pronounce my name.

Name that Assonance

• Now I got tattoos on my bodyPsycho snitches in my lobbyI got haters in the paperPhoto shoots with paparazzi

• Now I got tattoos on my bodyPsycho snitches in my lobbyI got haters in the paperPhoto shoots with paparazzi

• Holy Grail – Justin Timberlake and Jay Z

Name that Assonance

'Cause your spirit is ungrateful, girls is so hateful, I remain a staple

'Cause your spirit is ungrateful, girls is so hateful, I remain a staple

Nicki Minaj – Moment for Life

Name that Assonance

Than a shock when I get shocked at the hospital. By the doctor when I'm not co-operating. When I'm rocking the table while he's operating (hey!!)

Than a shock when I get shocked at the hospital. By the doctor when I'm not co-operating. When I'm rocking the table while he's operating (hey!!)

Eminem – Without Me

Name that Assonance

I got paper girlThe Lamborghiniwith the spider seatsyou never seen it

I got paper girlThe Lamborghiniwith the spider seatsyou never seen it

Kiss Kiss – Chris Brown

Name that Assonance

But when I get my card back activatedI'm back to Vegas causeI always had a passion for flashing' before I had itI close my eyes and imagine

But when I get my card back activatedI'm back to Vegas causeI always had a passion for flashing' before I had itI close my eyes and imagine

Kanye West – Good Life

Name that Assonance

It was all a dream I used to read Word Up magazine Salt'n'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine 

It was all a dream I used to read Word Up magazine Salt'n'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine 

It was all a Dream – Notorious BIG (rip)

Alliteration & Assonance

Review Alliteration = repetition of beginning

consonant or sound Assonance = repetition of vowel

sound in the middle of a word