Alliteration

Alliteration: Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same sound repeats in a group of words.The repeating sound must occur either in the first letter of each word, or in the stressed syllables of those words. Alliterative words don’t have to be right next to each other. Other words can appear between them.
 

The Importance of Alliteration
Alliteration is a useful sound device found in many types of literature but mostly in
poetry. Businesses and advertisers use alliteration to call attention to company names and
products. Many famous quotes and sayings also use alliteration. This is because the repetition of consonant  sounds at the beginning of words allows rhythm and musicality. It also makes a phrase easy to memorize and fun to read or say out loud. Alliteration can be used to give a poem a calm, smooth feeling or a loud, harsh feeling.
 

Examples
You might have heard this alliteration that repeats the ‘s’ and ‘l’ sounds:
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
 

Another popular alliteration that repeats the ‘p’ sound:
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge uses alliteration in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”:
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
There are several types of alliteration here. The “f” sound used in fair, foam, flew, furrow,
followed, free, and first. The “b,” sound in breeze and blew. The “w,” in we and were. Lastly, the