Assonance and rhyme are two poetic devices that involve the repetition of certain sounds across multiple words to link words or lines together and, used correctly, to give the poem (or other form of writing, sometimes) a particular rhythm when read
For example, “asl ee p under a tr ee ”, “each evening”, “seen”-“beat”, “gold” “killed” the words indicating the vowel “e’’ which is called assonance
Technically, rhyme is a kind of assonance, but in practical terms, when we call something assonance, we often mean that only the vowel sound repeats between words
An example of assonance in a sentence would be the repeated use of the /oo/ sound in the sentence, “True, I do like Sue
Take a look at these lines: The last two lines, in particular, are good examples
“P o etry is o ld, ancient, g o es back far
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Alliteration is a type of figurative language that relies on repetition of stressed initial sounds
Alliteration and assonance do not have to have the same letters
“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far