Define alliteration.

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Define alliteration.

Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. This sound pattern gives a musical, rhythmic feel to the line and helps anchor attention on a specific phrase. For example, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” repeats the p sound at the start of several words, which makes the line catchy and memorable. This is different from repeating vowel sounds within nearby words, which is called assonance. It’s also not about end rhymes, which occur at the ends of lines, or about repeating entire phrases for emphasis, which is more about emphasis or parallelism than the sound pattern at the beginnings of words.

Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. This sound pattern gives a musical, rhythmic feel to the line and helps anchor attention on a specific phrase. For example, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” repeats the p sound at the start of several words, which makes the line catchy and memorable.

This is different from repeating vowel sounds within nearby words, which is called assonance. It’s also not about end rhymes, which occur at the ends of lines, or about repeating entire phrases for emphasis, which is more about emphasis or parallelism than the sound pattern at the beginnings of words.

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