as·so·nance (ăs’ə-nəns)

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[French, from Latin assonāre, to respond to, ad-, ad-, + sonāre, to sound.]

noun

Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words, as in: “that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea” (William Butler Yeats)

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills.

Rough similarity; approximate agreement.

al·ter·a·tion (ôltə-rā’shən)

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noun

The act or procedure of altering.

The condition resulting from altering; modification.

Assonance is the similarity of the way a word sounds and the actual sound made by that object. e.g. the word “flutter” actually sort of sounds like the noise made by fluttering wings.

Alliteration the repetition of consonants in 2 or more “neighboring words” e.g. “wet and wild” “short and stocky” “long and lean” “bright and beautiful” “down and dirty”