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: 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-4: -Alliteration is usually described as the repetition of the same consonants, and assonance as the repetition of the same vowels.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.