Alliteration
Alliteration is a stylistic literary technique in which nearby words repeat the same initial consonant sound. Alliteration refers to only the beginning sound of the word. It makes a sentence more pleasing to the ear and emphasizes. Alliteration is used in everyday language, poetry, literature, and business writing [Nizomova, p. 158].
In the poetic dictionary of Kwiatkowski, alliteration is understood as “the oldest stylistic device for enhancing the expressiveness of artistic speech, especially verse, by repetitions of consonant sounds.” One literary encyclopedia defines alliteration as “a means of sound writing; repetition of the supporting consonant, that is, immediately preceding the stressed vowel.” In compliance with Fritsche: “Alliteration - in the narrow (linguistic) sense - is a special, canonized in some (especially “folk”) pieces of literature, a technique of poetic technique (or - the phonetic organization of a verse); that is to say, it is one of the types of “sound repetition” [Nizomova, p. 241-242].
Alliteration is the repetition of the same sounds — normally initial consonants of words or stressed syllables — in any sequence of nearby words. Although now it is an optional and incidental decorative effect in verse or prose, it was once a required element in the poetry of Germanic languages and in Celtic verse (where alliterated sounds could regularly be placed in positions other than the beginning of a word or syllable). Such poetry, in which alliteration rather than rhyme is the main principle of repetition, is known as alliterative verse; its rules also allow a vowel sound to alliterate with any other vowel [Baldick, p. 6].
⠀ Chris Baldick. (2015). The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
⠀ Zebo Meliyevna Nizomova. (2021). The linguastylistic role of alliterations in linguistics. Academic research in educational sciences. 2. Uzbekistan: ООО «Academic Research».
⠀ Zebo Meliyevna Nizomova. (2022). The concept of alliteration and its functions. Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal. 2. Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan Research Online.