alliteration vs. assonance
noun
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the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group consonantal alliteration, as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable vocalic alliteration, as in each to all.
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the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid.
noun
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resemblance of sounds.
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Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
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partial agreement or correspondence.
