Alliteration and Assonance
Alliteration - the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words that are close together Examples: Blind as a bat As good as gold Tit for tat Waste not, want not To shilly-shally Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran But a better butter makes a batter better Alliteration in poetry and songs Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling! (Walt Whitman) And churlish chiding of the winter’s wind Which, when it bites and blows upon my body. (William Shakespeare) And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain (Edgar Allan Poe) Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun. (The Beatles)