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the mini mini monkey man(hey that's also a good ex. of alliteration)
Most likely, it is simply a humorous alliteration or possibly a short-hand reference to the "brass monkey" phrase. Snopes (see link) has something to say about brass monkey if you'd care to look.
Alliteration
It is an alliteration
Alliteration. Repetition of initial consonants or sounds is alliteration, and is very handy for emphasizing a certain phrase, or as a memory aid.
no its not
Alliteration
its called alliteration for example, peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Alliteration is a written sound, such as boom, or bang. So the paraphrase of alliteration would be something such as if the alliteration was "crash", the paraphrase alliteration would be something like, " the plates went crash as they hit the floor". So, a paraphrase alliteration is basically a paraphrase with an alliteration.
The conflict, as far as I'm concerned, is that the monkey's paw inflicted a "curse" for every wish you made. The money came with the price of the son"s life or something, bringing the son back to life made him a zombie or something like that.
There is no alliteration used in the crucible.
Assonance is the alphabet alliteration.