How does the poem "Make A Fist", use of alliteration(including consonance and assonance) impact the meaning of the text?

Repetition of a consonant sound  What is an assonance?  How does alliteration affect this poem? What is the symbolic meaning of making a fist? "The borders we must cross separately, stamped with our unanswerable The poem is about strength through out life and being able to make a fist resembles strength

Explanation:

his humanity shines from every page as he bears witness to the tragedy which befell the jewish race at the hands of the nazis. wiesel was a romanian-born jew whose home town of sighet was occupied by the hungarians for most of the second world war. in may 1944, all the jews in the area were forced into cattle wagons and transported to auschwitz.