Question

Which one of the following phrases is an example of consonance?

Answer 1

a. River birch and upland beech

In the abovementioned phrases, "river birch and upland beech" is an example of consonance. Consonance is the repetitive sounds of consonants within a sentence or a phrase. It is a literary device that is  commonly used in prose and even in poems. Consonance refers to the direct contrast of assonance since assonance refers to the repetition of the vowels within a phrase or a sentence. Some examples of consonance are the following:

pitter patter
sells seashells
sunny Sunday

Answer 2

Consonanceis the use of words repeating the same consonant sound: Risingthat morning, Ingraham stood fiddlingwith his ring.

so A is correct in this case