ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -alliteration, in prosody, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables. Sometimes the repetition of initial vowel sounds (head rhyme) is also referred to as alliteration. As a poetic device, it is often discussed with assonance and consonance.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alliteration: The repetition of a beginning consonant sound, usually in a line or verse or in a sentence.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alliteration is usually described as the repetition of the same consonants, and assonance as the repetition of the same vowels.

Detailed explanation-4: -Both terms are associated with repetition-assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds and consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds-but these terms (as they are typically used) differ in 3 important ways from the patterning of rhyme.

Detailed explanation-5: -Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.