Its quite common in conversational idioms that you hear every day.

Example of good alliteration in literature. Busy as a bee. Janie read a book by the babbling brook. A classic example is.

Alliteration in Phrases and Quotes. Alliteration in Poetry Prose Drama Alliteration in poetry is extremely popular and can be seen in everything from the simplest of poems to the most complex. Cream of the crop.

Make a mountain out of a molehill. Alliteration has been used as a literary device in the English language for many hundreds of years prevalent in works of literature all the way back to Beowulf the eighth-century Old English poem. Alliteration in prosody the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables.

Alliteration is a term to describe a literary device in which a series of words begin with the same consonant sound. Busy as a bee. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today. In literature alliteration is usually used to draw emphasis on a certain sentence or idea. Some famous examples of alliteration sentences include.

Sally sells seashells by the sea shore. This example from lines 5-6 of the Prologue of Romeo and Juliet has two sets of alliteration one with f sounds and one with l sounds. Leave in the lurch.