{"id":2551,"date":"2013-10-03T04:37:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T04:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2013-10-03T04:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T04:37:37","slug":"english-alliteration-and-consonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-alliteration-and-consonance\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  alliteration and consonance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, you deal with literary terms. \u00a0The English tutor comments on the oft-mentioned alliteration as well as the less commonly known consonance.<\/h1>\n<p>Most people know that alliteration is the repetition of an initial consonant sound over several words: \u00a0<em>hairy, homely hulk<\/em>, for instance. \u00a0Some people suggest that a repeated initial vowel sound can also constitute alliteration, such as <em>utter uncertainty<\/em>. \u00a0I&#8217;ve always been given the impression alliteration only involves consonant sounds, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Coles Literary Terms<\/span> doesn&#8217;t specify.<\/p>\n<p>Consonance &#8211; which is much less discussed &#8211; is the repetition of a consonant sound at the ends of words. <em>Hard polished wood,<\/em> with its three consecutive terminal d sounds, gives an example of consonance.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:  <em>Literary Terms.<\/em>  Coles Publishing.  2009:  Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, you deal with literary terms. \u00a0The English tutor comments on the oft-mentioned alliteration as well as the less commonly known consonance. Most people know that alliteration is the repetition of an initial consonant sound over several words: \u00a0hairy, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-alliteration-and-consonance\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  alliteration and consonance<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}