Remember that the concept of a vowel may be totally foreign to non-native English speakers.

Open Vowel words have a vowel at the end of an open syllable create a long vowel sound.

Long Vowel plus two consonants words such as 'find, child, old, and most '.

Examples of vowel team words include 'tr ai n, p ea s, light, boat, and fr ui t'.

Vowel Team words also form long vowel words.

Some programs called these Magic E or Bossy E words.

'T a p e, r i c e, st o v e, and cube ' are examples of Silent E words.

Silent E words have one internal long vowel that says its name, followed by a consonant, and a Silent 'E' at the end of the word.

** Bairns, meaning children, survives today in the Scottish dialect. That means the definition included vowel sounds that were near matches, and also occurred elsewhere than at the beginning of the word. When I studied Old English, in which alliteration reigned absolutely, we were taught to consider a line like this one from 'Cædmon's Hymn',Īs containing alliterative matches in 'ærest', 'eorþan' and 'bearnum': ær, eor, and ear. Alliteration can also refer to phonemes with similar properties, anywhere in a word. The use of consonance and assonance to refer narrowly to consonant and vowel repetition is a distinction, not a generally restrictive provision. I maintain that it may be used in the broader sense described above. Some have questioned my usage of the term alliteration here. Now, if you are really asking about a term to describe long vowel sounds apart from alliteration, you are asking a question about linguistics, and that is not really the topic of this site. In this case eerie and feeling both have the ee combination, and familiar and feeling both begin with the f sound. It refers to similar sounds placed close together.

The only literary technique exhibited there is alliteration, but that is not limited to long-vowel sounds.

What is a long vowel