Why might alliteration strengthen the impact of poetic language?

Answer 1

It creates a sense that the words go together or seem "right."

Answer 2

To emphasize a certain word or image

Answer 3

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Answer 4

Alliteration is the use of a succesion of words starting with the same sound. Traditional poetry had a rhythm and alliteration improved it eg the rifles' rapid rattle ---- Somebody didn't like my answer 'sfx' and removed it, but that's the answer to 'why'. Alliteration is one of many kinds of special effects of language that occur in poetry to create a mood, add music, color, and texture, emphasize something, evoke an auditory or visual experience, and so on. Rhyme, meter, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia are some others.

Answer 5

The biggest contribution lies in the poetry, the musicality of the language. People forget that when they rely on the word only to convey fact or fiction. Listen to hip hop. Remember that W.H. Auden said "Thou shalt not read The Bible for its prose". There's something to that, even if he said that in a poem.

Answer 6

yes, it means repititition of the same initial,letter and sound

example sells seashells by the seashore

Answer 7

The pleasing sound of the words makes them seem to "fit" together :)

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