consonance

  The repetition of consonants in words stressed in the same place (but whose vowels differ). Also, a kind of inverted alliteration, in which final consonants, rather than initial or medial ones, repeat in nearby words. Consonance is more properly a term associated with modern poetics than with historical rhetorical terminology.

Related Figures

• Figures of Sound
  • alliteration
  • assonance
    Assonance is similar to consonance in that it focuses on sound repetition in the stressed syllables of adjacent words, but of vowels, rather than consonants.
• Figures of Repetition