poetic device: Assonance

Assonance is when nearby words share the same vowel sounds, especially on their stressed (or accented) syllables, such as “tiny dinosaur” (which share a long “i” sound) or “random hat” (which share a short “a” sound).

These poems all include at least one instance of assonance. See if you can the assonant words in these poems.

Shelley Sellers by Kenn Nesbitt
Shelley Sellers
What I Told Mrs. Morris when She Asked How I Was Feeling Today by Kenn Nesbitt
What I Told Mrs. Morris When She Asked How I Was Feeling Today
Gordon’s Garden
Toby the Snowboarding Doberman
An Awesome Opposum
Today Is the Day by Kenn Nesbitt
Today Is the Day
I Have an Amoeba
Auntie Gravity
How Not to Make a Cardboard Fort
Floyd the Coin Collector
Jake the Yo-Yo Maker
Belinda’s an Expert at Bathing
Boney Mahoney
The Monsters' Musical Contest by Kenn Nesbitt
The Monsters’ Musical Contest
Nile and Nate
Katy Ate a Crate of Dates
Ebb and Flo by Kenn Nesbitt
Eb and Flo
Buckaroo Huck

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