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Definition of Alliteration
Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same sound repeats in a group of words, such as the “b” sound in: “Bob brought the box of bricks to... read full definition
Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same sound repeats in a group of words, such as the “b” sound in: “Bob brought... read full definition
Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same sound repeats in a group of words, such as the... read full definition
Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—Swimming in a Swoon:
The novel uses simile and alliteration in Chapter 1 when Gertrude Morel, pregnant with her second son Paul, stands in the garden after Mr. Morel locks her out of their home:
The tall white lilies were reeling in the moonlight […] [Mrs. Morel] drank a deep draught of the scent. It almost made her dizzy. Mrs. Morel leaned on the garden gate, looking out, and she lost herself awhile. She did not know what she thought. Except for a slight feeling of sickness, and her consciousness in the child, herself melted out like scent into the shiny, pale air. After a time the child, too, melted with her in the mixing pot of moonlight, and she rested with the hills and lilies and houses, all swum together in a kind of swoon.
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Chapter 7
Explanation and Analysis—Endless Shimmeriness :
In Chapter 7, Paul uses alliteration, a figure of speech in which the same sound repeats in a group of words, as he explains to Miriam why she likes a drawing in his sketchbook:
Unlock with LitCharts A+It's because there is scarcely any shadow in it; it's more shimmery, as if I'd painted the shimmering protoplasm in the leaves and everywhere, and not the stiffness of the shape. That seems dead to me. Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.
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