ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Alliteration: repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words. Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called initial alliteration. Repeated consonant sounds in the middle or at the ends of words is called internal alliteration. Repetition of vowel sounds is called assonance.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alliteration: The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -repetition of ‘f’/’ph’ sounds is called fricative alliteration. repetition of ‘h’ sounds is called aspirant alliteration. repetition of ‘m’ sounds is called bilabial alliteration. repetition of ‘l’ sounds is called liquid alliteration. repetition of ‘p’/’b’ sounds is called plosive alliteration.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.