The Broome County Arts Council will be hosting a poetry workshop on assonance, alliteration, consonance, and onomatopoeia, facilitated by Dr. Joshua Lewis, on Feb. 11th from 5-7 p.m. at 95 Court Street, Binghamton, NY. The goal of this workshop is to explore how assonance, alliteration, consonance, and onomatopoeia can be used in poetry.

Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words

Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Consonance is a stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighbouring words whose vowel sounds are different. 

An onomatopoeia is a word that actually looks like the sound it makes, and we can almost hear those sounds as we read. 

This poetry workshop is free for Broome Arts Council Members and the General Public. Pre-registration is recommended.  Please email jlewis2@binghamton.edu for further details.