Alliteration vs. Consonance — What's the Difference?

In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently. As a method of linking words for effect, alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme.

Agreement; harmony; accord.

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Close correspondence of sounds.

The repetition of identical or similar sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences" (Hart Crane). Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.

The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern, especially at the ends of words, as in blank and think or strong and string.

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.

(Music) A simultaneous combination of sounds not requiring resolution to another combination of sounds for finality of effect and conventionally regarded as harmonious or pleasing.

The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

(prosody) The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels as in assonance.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -

Harmony; agreement; lack of discordance.

Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse;

Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.

Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness.

Friendship; concord.

The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words

The property of sounding harmonious