How does the use of alliteration add to the mood?

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How does the use of alliteration add to the mood?

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Answer 1

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration to give you some ideas on how alliteration adds to mood of a story, play, etc...

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Answer 2

Alliteration helps break up the tedium of prose and adds zest to poetry. Unless your writing something super formal it'll make you audience smile and want to keep reading.

Answer 3

Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row.

An alliteration is the repetition of sounds in a sequence of words. Poets use alliteration to represent the action in the work.

Examples of Alliteration:
In "Moby ****," Melville uses alliteration to build character and to help the reader experience the colorful scene on board a whaling ship. The character, Stubb, for instance, is described as having "rather a peculiar way of talking to them in general," and as saying "the most terrific things to his crew." His use of assonance is part of how Melville illustrates these things. "The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions," Stubb says, for instance. "Start her -- start her, my silver spoons! Start her, marling spikes!" (In this last quote, we have not only alliteration in the repetition of the s sounds, but also an example of assonance in the words "start" and "marling.")

In other places, these Melville uses these literary devices to build suspense and drama. For instance, the first time the ship comes across sperm whales, the type of whale they are after, the narrator says, "...neither of those can feel stranger and stronger emotions than the man does, who for the first time finds himself pulling into the charmed, churned circle of the hunted sperm whale." The repetition of the st sounds in "stranger" and "stronger" and the repetiition of the ch sounds in "charmed" and "churned" ("churned" also resonates, through assonance, with the word "sperm,") helps create a sense of the importance of this event.

Another example of alliteration at work comes from the author Donald E. Westlake ("The Hook"). The main characters are both writers; one of them, Wayne, has killed the other's wife. Wayne has been waiting for the news to pick up on the murder: "'Beautiful blonde bludgeoned' was the nicely alliterative phrase most of the media had settled on, though Wayne could have told them that they'd got that all wrong. It hadn't been like that at all." The alliteration in part makes fun of the typical headlines often used by papers, especially tabloids, but it is also part of how Westlake builds character. The fact that Wayne notices the alliteration helps characterize him as a writer. Furthermore, the fact that he's noticing it after committing a murder reveals something about his state of mind at that moment: he hasn't quite come to grips with what he's done.

While you may use assonance in more poetic moments of your prose without even being conscious of it, alliteration, as in the example of the "beautiful blonde bludgeoned," tends to call attention to itself. Unless you mean for this to happen -- to build character or drama, or to create a comic moment -- employ alliteration selectively.

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Answer 4

Depends on the context.
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