Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a group of words.
Poets use alliteration to help create mood, rhythm or emphasis. It can also help with memorization. It's important to realize that it's all about sound, not spelling. For example, the letter c can have a hard or soft sound as in cereal and cat. These two words next to each other would not be considered alliteration because they are not the same sound. Examples of alliteration are:
My many monkeys met at the museum.
All the aardvarks already arrived.
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She looks down upon it.
In _A Raisin in the Sun_ by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter
Younger has a plan to open up a liquor store.
Normally, a parent would support a child’s ambitions, but in the
instance of Walter Younger this is not the case. His mother Lena Younger opposes his opening
of a liquor store because she is morally opposed to the drinking of alcohol and
looks down upon it and what it can lead to.
