Consonance is a literary device[?], often used in poetry. It is the repetition of consonant sounds in a short sequence of words, for example, "her brown curly hair." Alliteration differs from consonance in that in alliteration, the repeated consonant sound must be at the beginning of each word.
He was the son of her younger
of a northern cathedral. This youth, therefore, Greorge Bascombe by
bar, she often invited to Glaston; and on this Friday afternoon he
two ladies. The cousins liked each other, had not had more of each
far too prudent to have made as yet any reference to them, and stood
with each other as Mrs. Ramshorn could well.html">well have desired. Her chief,
evident fact, that Helen Lingard was not a girl of the sort to fall
did not come in the way of marrying her cousin, who, her aunt felt
any other youth she had ever seen, or was ever likely to see. Upon
the design that he should act as a foil to her nephew, partly in
not as a lay member, but in some undefined professional capacity, in
parish, and, as he was merely curate.html">curate, she had not been in haste to
in the abbey church, which was grand and old, with a miserable
the amount of the tithes in salary to his curate, and spent the rest
the incumbency, the presentation to which belonged to his own
drawing-room, looking like any other gentleman, satisfied with his
professional either in dress, manner, or tone. Helen saw him for the
remarkable--a man who looked about thirty, was a little over the
forehead, a questionable nose, clear grey eyes, long, mobile,
hair, and might have been a lawyer just as well as a clergyman. A
discovered traces of suffering in the forms of the wrinkles.
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