Question

What is the meaning of the poetic device alliteration?

Answer 1

Answer:

Alliteration is a poetic device, or a figure of speech, wherein the words of a sentence or phrase start with the same sound or alphabet.

Example,

1. She sells sea shells at the sea shore.

(This is a famous tongue twister too :)

2. The river was running rapidly.

I hope you understood :)

Answer 2

Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text. The word comes from the Latin “littera,” meaning “letter of the alphabet”. The current definition of alliteration has been in use since the 1650s.