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Alliteration is a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Definition of Alliteration, Literary Devices )〕 "Alliteration" from the Latin word “litera”, meaning “letters of the alphabet”, and the first known use of the word to refer to a literary device occurred around 1624.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alliteration, Merriam-Webster )〕 Alliteration narrowly refers to the repetition of a consonant in any syllables that, according to the poem's meter, are stressed,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alliteration, University of Tennessee Knoxville )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Definition of Alliteration, Literary Devices )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Definition of Alliteration, Bcs.bedfordstmartins.com )〕 as in James Thomson's verse "Come…dragging the lazy languid Line along". Another example is, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers". ''Consonance'' (ex: As the wind will bend) is another 'phonetic agreement' akin to alliteration. It refers to the repetition of consonant sounds. Alliteration is a special case of consonance where the repeated consonant sound is at the stressed syllable.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=alliteration )〕 Alliteration may also include the use of different consonants with similar properties such as alliterating ''z'' with ''s'', as does the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or as Anglo-Saxon (Old English) poets would alliterate hard/fricative ''g'' with soft ''g'' (the latter exemplified in some courses as the letter yogh - ȝ - pronounced like the ''y'' in yarrow or the ''j'' in Jotunheim); this is known as ''license''. There is one specialised form of alliteration called ''Symmetrical Alliteration''. That is, alliteration containing parallelism. In this case, the phrase must have a pair of outside end words both starting with the same sound, and pairs of outside words also starting with matching sounds as one moves progressively closer to the centre. For example, "rust brown blazers rule", "purely and fundamentally for analytical purposes" or "fluoro colour co-ordination forever". Symmetrical alliteration is similar to palindromes in its use of symmetry. ==Literature== *The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe has many examples of alliteration including the following line: "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain". *Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner has the following lines of alliteration: "For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky." and "the furrow followed free..." *Robert Frost's poem ''Acquainted with the Night'' has the following line of alliteration: "I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet". * In Walter Abish's novel ''Alphabetical Africa'' (1974) the first chapter consists solely of words beginning with "A". Chapter two also permits words beginning with "B" and so on, until at chapter 26, Abish allows himself to use words beginning with any letter at all. For the next 25 chapters, he reverses the process. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「alliteration」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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