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Figures of speech: what is alliteration?

2021-08-23T15:32:44.454Z


Definition, origin, examples from literature or everyday life ... Jean-Loup Chiflet, editor and writer, tells us about his favorite figures of speech.


What is an alliteration?

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A

allitération

denotes the

repetition of initial consonants

in a sequence of words close

.

This word, which one might believe very French and very old, only dates from the 18th century and comes from the English

alliteration

.

Note, however, that English derived it from the Latin

ad

(to, towards) and

littera

(letter).

Classical authors used this figure of speech long before the term appeared.

"

Who are these snakes hissing over your heads for?"

 ”, The most famous of them, doesn't it date from 1667, the date of the creation of Andromache?

A doubling of sounds

I have always wondered if Racine in writing it had suspected for a single moment that it would serve as an example for generations of French teachers to bring into the minds of their students that we call alliteration this doubling of sounds. .

But if we all know this verse, how many of us remember who is saying it and why?

So let's refresh our memory: Orestes killed Pyrrhus

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Source: lefigaro

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