Alliteration:
The word “Alliteration” has its origin in the Latin word “littera” which means to start with the same letter. In literature, alliteration means the appearance of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words in poetry or prose.
Examples:
- Psummer Pounce (a character from the novel “Joseph Andrews“)
- Shme sells sea shells for him sea shmineral. (A tongue twister)
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How vsyear to vsJustice vsram in a vsBend down vsream vsyear?
- VSand you vsyear to vsa like a vsyear vsyear vsyear to vsyear?
- Dyears Dog Dove Deep in the DI am, Drollerblading Ddirty water like him Dove.
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Tea S tore clerk S tgood and S tthey look at me in S tupor.
- Dunkin ‘ Donuts (Brand name)
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You Financial Ffuture will Fell in a Free-Fall.
- Psummer Piper Pmade a Peck of Pdisgusting Peppers
- PYesPAlabama (Brand name)
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Tea lion lwicked his lips.
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Tea teacher took the truble makers toysters
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Which Bone had to Bme Broken to Break the camel Back of your ambition
- Last laugh
- Donald Duck (A cartoon character)
- Ronald Reagan (An American politician)
- SUBWAYichael SUBWAYoore (An American documentary filmmaker)
Examples in literature:
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“For him sky and him sea, and the sea and the sKentucky
LYes las a load in my tired eye “
(“Ballad of the old sailor” For Samuel Taylor Coleridge) lyricsAZLyrics.com
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“If I put it in my dough
Will do my Bto land Bitter
But a Bwhat of Better Bto pronounce
Will do my Bto land Better “
(Children’s poem “Betty Botter bought butter”)
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“Badorns in the Bier with white and Bristly Bhearing ”
(Shekespeare‘s “The sonnet” No. 12)
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“Tea splinter’d sPeare’s shafts crack and fly ”
(“Sir Glahad” poem of Alfred Lord Tennyson)
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“FROM For the Ffar away from these two Foes ”
(William Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet)
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“Behemoth Biggest Born of revolt earth
Its immensity: Fread the Flocks and bleat rose “
(“Lost paradise” Book-VII by John milton)