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I'm a teacher and a (try hard) poet: definitions of literary techniques can be highly problematic. Various definitions of consonance exist. 1) differing vowel sounds enclosed by the same pair of consonants. eg zig zag, bitter butter, reader rider - a la Auden. or 2) the same final consonant sound in successive words eg Great Aunt Bet or 3) a number of repeated consonant sounds in close proximity (Americans seem to go for this but I call that alliteration).
Drives me mad - yes, perhaps I haven't got enough to think about... what are the opinions of our learned correspondents?
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If they are in the STRESSED part of the word it's alliteration.