QUESTION:

[conuly]

The big bug had a bag.

The duck made a quick quack.

I stood and stared at his stuttering steed.

Kit-kat, ship-shape, hip hop. What's it called when you do that? I can't think of the term. I remember rhyming of course, and alliteration, but what's this again?

Edit: Thank you, steorra! It is apparently known as para-rhyme or double consonance. English certainly uses it enough for effect that I *knew* I couldn't be the first one to notice it and want a name!

Also, consonance of just the last consonant is called Half rhyme.

Comments

[trialia]

Onomatopoeia. At least, it reads like that.

[conuly]

No, that's Achoo! Bang! Crash! (Also, that's the title of an awesome ABC book.)

[trialia]

*laughs* I forget that not everyone interprets words as I do. Sorry. As a synaesthete, what you just wrote was onomatopoeic to me because of the musical sounds I associate with the words, but in regular terms I guess it isn't. *g* Sorry!

[conuly]

LOL! That makes sense now.

[steorra]

It's like the inverse of assonance... rather than matching vowels, you match everything but the vowel.

There's consonance, but that's just repetition of consonants, without specifically being the repetition of a consonantal 'shell'.

Aha! It has been called pararhyme or double consonance.

[conuly]

I LOVE YOU FOREVER!

[steorra]

:-)

Glad to be helpful.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

No, you've already got the term; "alliteration" is correct.

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it. ;)

Although, now I'm wondering if she's referring to something else. Something that's maybe not quite rhyming nor quite alliteration but is a catchy-sounding phrase, like "injured ninja."

[griffen.livejournal.com]

I believe that's called "assonance."

[conuly]

It's not either. Well, what she said is, but assonance is repeating a vowel. And consonance is repeating a consonant anywhere. But this is more like repeating a whole syllable with one small change in the middle.

[conuly]

So what's the term for if I'm going "big bad Ben brought books"? I'm not just repeating the first consonant, I'm repeating the final consonant as well. Isn't that a different term? It certainly is a different thing. If the sentence given as an example in this comment is alliteration - and Wikipedia suggests it is - then what I'm thinking of should be something else.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm aware, there's no term for the repetition of end-sounds other than "rhyme."

[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

Tongue twister. :p

(But seriously, I think griffen has it right.)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Hm. The bag/bad/bat thing might be a case of anaphora in really, really small units...

As for the bat/bet/bit thing, perhaps there's a name for it in Arabic or some other hamito-semitic afroasiatic language (as they're big on consonant-stems with vowel variation). I have no idea.