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