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Allegory
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 One
Explanation and Analysis—Alliteration:
Author Kenneth Grahame uses alliteration multiple times throughout the novel. For example, in the beginning of Chapter 1, the narrator uses alliteration to describe Mole's movements as he cleans up his home for spring:
So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, ‘Up we go! Up we go!’ till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.
Chapter Three
Explanation and Analysis—Nature's Slumber:
Mole personifies the arrival of winter in Chapter 3:
Unlock with LitCharts A+It was a cold still afternoon with a hard steely sky overhead, when he slipped out of the warm parlour into the open air. The country lay bare and entirely leafless around him, and he thought that he had never seen so far and so intimately into the insides of things as on that winter day when Nature was deep in her annual slumber and seemed to have kicked the clothes off.
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Chapter Five
Explanation and Analysis—Alliteration:
Author Kenneth Grahame uses alliteration multiple times throughout the novel. For example, in the beginning of Chapter 1, the narrator uses alliteration to describe Mole's movements as he cleans up his home for spring:
Unlock with LitCharts A+So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, ‘Up we go! Up we go!’ till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.
