alliteration

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The Repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. Although the term is not ferquently in the multiple choice section, you can look for alliteration in any essay passage. The repetition can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, supply a musical sound, and/or echo the sense of the passage.

In Anglo-Saxon poetry and in some fourteenth century texts such as Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight rigid patterns of alliteration were an essential part of poetic form. However it is most usually used for expressive or occasionally onomatopoeic effect.

__**Examples:**__ Helen Keller: "The Seeing See Little" > __D__usk __d__emands __d__aylight. > __D__ewdrops __d__well __d__elicately > __d__rawing __d__azzling __d__elight. > __D__ewdrops __d__ilute __d__aisies __d__omain. > __D__istinguished __d__ebutantes. __D__iamonds __d__efray __d__elivered > __d__aylights __d__istilled __d__aisy __d__ance. Paul Mc Cann: Dewdrops Dancing Down Daises > __T__hirty of __t__hanemen; __T__hence he departed > __L__eaping and __l__aughing, his __l__air to return to.... Beowulf III: Grendal the Murderer. __Attributions__ MSandoval period 4
 * __T__ouch each object you want __t__o __t__ouch as if __t__omorrow your __t__actile sense would fail.
 * __D__on't __d__elay __d__awns __d__isarming __d__isplay.
 * __F__ell and __f__rantic, and __f__orced from their slumbers
 * //Beowulf//. Anonymous. 28 Sep. 2007<[|www.enotes.com/**beowulf**-text/**iii**-**grendel**-**murderer*>*]
 * //Alliteration.// Dowling, Laura. http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/Terms/alliteration.html
 * //Allteration Examples//. Mc Cann, Paul & Mary. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~poems/ps/html/alliteration_examples.html
 * Anglo European School. http://www.angloeuropean.essex.sch.uk/English/English_Criticism.htm