Answers To The Question: What Is Alliteration?
ALLITERATION – In this article, we will learn and discover more about this literary device, its significance, and its importance.
The word alliteration is derived from the Latin “Latira” which means letters of the alphabet. It serves as a stylistic tool in literature wherein a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occurs close in a series.
Here are some examples:
- But a better butter makes a batter better
- A big bully beats a baby boy
In the examples above, both sentences have the same first letter, “B” which occur close together. This produces an alliteration in the sentence.
However, one must take note that alliteration does not depend on the letters but on the sound it produces. Here is an example: “The crochet she made was not knotty.“
This literary device also occurs in names that we hear. Here are some famous examples of those types of names according to an article from literary devices.
- Ronald Reagan
- Sammy Sosa
- Jesse Jackson
- Michael Moore
- William Wordsworth
- Mickey Mouse
- Porky Pig
- Lois Lane
- Marilyn Monroe
- Fred Flintstone
- Donald Duck
- Spongebob Squarepants
- Seattle Seahawks
This type of literary device serves a vital role in poetry and prose. It produces a musical effect in the presented text that enhances the pleasures of reading.
Here are some examples of it used in Literature.
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes;
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
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