alliteration
consonance is something completely different
Ah, you are correct! It's been a long time since I have had to describe literary devices and I wrestled with calling it consonance or alliteration. I convinced myself that consonance was correct because of the repeated consonant sounds but I apparently forgot that it is the ending sound not the beginning sound that is being repeated. Thanks for the correction and the chance to revisit elementary school English and language arts class.
You probably confused consonants with consonance. Which isn't related to words at all. Then there's assonance.
The internet has virtually destroyed my ability to handle language properly it seems. All of these literary terms are in my head still, but since I don't get to speak of them often, they have lost most of their meaning for me. I should go brush up on this fading knowledge before I succumb to the brain rot that technology has made so prevalent these days. I would make a metaphor or a simile here to illustrate my point, but I'd probably screw that up too and just end up using imagery instead.
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