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.

My Dog Likes to Disco

My Cat Knows Karate

We Bought a Lot of Candy Bars

I Bought a Maserati

My Puppy Punched Me in the Eye

AstroCow

My Flat Cat

I Tried to Take a Selfie

An Ogre Came over for Dinner

My Favorite Word is Floofy

My Koala’s Not a Doctor

Bradley Bentley Baxter Bloome

Elaine the Complainer

After Thanksgiving

I’d Like to Be a Movie Star

Whenever It’s December

Bob’s Job

This Morning Is Our History Test

I’m Clever Whenever

A Goat in a Landfill

Random Miranda

Springy Sidewalk

The Noisy Boys from Boise

A Hippo Is Bounding around on My Head