Wednesday 14 August 2013

Alliteration And Its Usages In Literature

Alliteration is a literary device that most of the people are familiar with, but not many poets and writers can use this device effectively. The reason being it is very tough to integrate it in your writing but using it properly can make your poetry and writing very catchy and entertaining.

Alliteration Definition

Alliteration is basically a literary device that poets use to make the sentence more poetic & sound much convincing. If all the words of a sentence are starting with the same alphabet, then it is the most probably called an alliteration.

When you put words with same starting letter together, the sound of that sentence will become very rhythmic. This is an art and not many people can translate this art to actual literature.

Examples of alliteration are like “better butter makes a batter better”. This is an example where most of the words start with letter B and hence it sounds very catchy. Some people also have a problem in reading the alliteration correctly but most of the times it is very easy to memorize.

Alliteration definition


We cannot memorize literature easily, but we love to hear songs and most of the songs are memorized by people without any error. Songs are written with alliteration, so that they remain easy to memorize and easy to sing. 

Alliteration also helps you to describe an emotional event more effectively. Poets usually do that because when the sound of the poetry is more in flow then emotions always come naturally. If you read poetry softly and without any rigid and unaligned words, then it creates more impact. 

Smooth and soft reading is possible only when the poet has used alliteration. It is a very important tool for writing good and popular songs. If you remember old and classic songs, then you will notice that all of those songs were written with alliteration and it played an important role in their success.

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