Answer:
Sometimes called initial rhyme or head rhyme, alliteration is one poetic device that’s unmissable in our everyday world. Poets, advertisers and headline writers all regularly take this approach of repeating initial letter sounds to grab people’s attention. In poetry, it also injects focus, harmony, and rhythm.
Explanation:
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.
In alliteration, the words should flow in quick succession. Think of “wicked witch,” “loose lips” or the tumble of “f” sounds in the line “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,” from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
The key is to look for repetition of sounds, not letters. The letter “g,” for example, sounds very different in “giant” than in “gas.: That’s why “gym junkie” is alliterative—but “gym glutton” is not.
It’s not cut and dried, however. Some experts consider letter sounds such as “s” and “sh” similar enough to qualify as alliteration, such as in “sink ships.” It comes down to the ear of the beholder.
In poetry specifically, another key factor in determining alliteration is the poem’s meter. To create that harmonious pattern of alliteration, the repetition of a letter sound must fall at the start of a stressed syllable
