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Alliteration
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.[1][2][3][4] As a method of linking words for effect, alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme.[5] For example, "humble house," or "potential power play."[6] A familiar example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers". "Alliteration" is from the Latin word littera, meaning "letter of the alphabet"; it was first coined in a Latin dialogue by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano in the 15th century.[7] Some literary experts accept as alliteration the repetition of vowel sounds,[8] or repetition at the end of words.[9] Alliteration narrowly refers to the repetition of a letter in any syllables that, according to the poem's meter, are stressed,[10][11] as in James Thomson's verse "Come…dragging the lazy lang...
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