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:
