In this case, the phrase must have a pair of outside end words both starting with the same sound, and pairs of outside words also starting with matching sounds as one moves progressively closer to the centre. Symmetrical alliteration is a specialised form of alliteration, which contains parallelism, or chiasmus. A familiar example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers". Head rhyme or initial rhyme is a method of linking words for effect for example, "humble house", "potential power play", "picture perfect", "money matters", "rocky road", or "quick question". Alliteration may also refer to the use of different but similar consonants, such as alliterating z with s, as does the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or as Anglo-Saxon (Old English) poets would alliterate hard/fricative g with soft g (the latter exemplified in some courses as the letter yogh – ȝ – pronounced like the y in yarrow or the j in Jotunheim). Alliteration is a special case of consonance where the repeated consonant sound is in the stressed syllable. Ĭonsonance is a broader literary device identified by the repetition of consonant sounds at any point in a word (for example, co ming ho me, ho t foo t). Alliteration narrowly refers to the repetition of a letter in any syllables that, according to the poem's meter, are stressed, as in James Thomson's verse "Come. Some literary experts accept as alliteration the repetition of vowel sounds, or repetition at the end of words.
In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently. It is also used in music lyrics, article titles in magazines and newspapers, and in advertisements, business names, comic strips, television shows, video games and in the dialogue and naming of cartoon characters. Today, alliteration is used poetically in various languages around the world, including Arabic, Irish, German, Mongolian, Hungarian, American Sign Language, Somali, Finnish, and Icelandic. The Anglo-Saxon saints Tancred, Torhtred and Tova provide a similar example, among siblings. These were followed in the 10th century by their direct descendants Æthelstan and Æthelred II, who ruled as kings of England.
#Repetition of vowel sounds within words series
This is evidenced by the unbroken series of 9th century kings of Wessex named Æthelwulf, Æthelbald, Æthelberht, and Æthelred. Alliteration was used in Old English given names. It was an important ingredient of the Sanskrit shlokas. Īlliteration is used in the alliterative verse of Old English, Old Norse, Old High German, Old Saxon, and Old Irish. It was first coined in a Latin dialogue by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano in the 15th century. The word alliteration comes from the Latin word littera, meaning "letter of the alphabet". Main articles: Alliterative verse and Alliterative Revival
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