Alliteration:
The word “alliteration” has its origin in the Latin word “bunk” which means start with the same letter. In literature, alliteration means the appearance of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely related words in poetry or prose.
Examples:
- Pbe Pounce (A character from the Novel “Jose Andres“)
- Shmy yesthey yesetc. shells for him yesetc. shmineral. (A tongue twister)
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As againstyear to againstjustice againstram in a againstlean againstream againstyear?
- againstand you againstyear to againsta has a againstAna againstyear againstyear to againstyear?
- D.years dog dlove deep in the dam, dskating ddirty water like him dlove
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Tea streetore employee streetgood and streetthey are with me in streetabove
- D.disarming D.walnuts (brand name)
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His Ffinancial Ffuture will Fshe in a Free-Fall.
- Pbe Piper pmarked a pheck of ptickled pPeppers
- PYeahPthere (brand name)
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Tea Yoion Yolicked her Yoips
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Tea youeach youwell the youruble makers youhey
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Which bone had to bmy bbroken to btake the camel back of your ambition
- Yofast Yoouch
- D.onald D.oh (A cartoon character)
- R.onald R.eat (An American politician)
- METERicael METERfurther (An American documentary filmmaker)
Examples in literature:
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“For him yesKy and the yeseh, and the yeshey and he yesKentucky
YoYeah Yoike-a Yoburden on my weary eye”
(“Ballad of the Old Mariner” By Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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“If I put it in my dough
will do my bland bitter
bHas babout bbetter bto pronounce
will do my bland bbetter”
(Children’s poem “Betty Botter Bought Some Butter”)
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“bdecorate in the bier with white and bristly bear”
(shekespeare‘s “The Sonnet” No. 12)
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“Tea yesplinter’d yespear trees creak and fly”
(“Mr. Glahad” poem of Alfred Lord Tennyson)
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“FROMs Fnorth el Fstay away from these two Fyou”
(William Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet)
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“B.eemoth bsuggest born of raised earth
Its immensity: Fread the Flocks and bleating pink”
(“Lost paradise” Book-VII by John Milton)
