About Consonance

Consonance is the effect of similar speech-sounds being near each other. Some forms of consonance can be singled out, which are: alliteration, where initial sounds matter; sibilance, where 's' and 'z' sounds are enhanced; and assonance, where the vowel-sounds of words are in concert.

The consonance of the hard sounds in Wes Magee's 'The Boneyard Rap' might be said to echo the rattle of bones in the poem.

An example of Consonance

Holy The Heart On Which We Hang Our Hope - Sebastian Barker
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