Image source: https://hagarlanguages.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/english-alliteration.jpg Defining Alliteration Alliteration is a literary device that is often used by poets and good writers for greater effect. The dictionary defines alliteration as the repetition of a sound, especially a consonant, for rhetorical or poetic effect. We can get innumerable examples from poets of the Romantic Age where many poets used fanciful expressions and descriptive writing was at its best. Examples of Alliteration Techniques in Famous Poems Let us outline some practical instances from famous poems where the alliteration technique is utilized. These will help to further establish the concept and its effect literary speaking. The following verse from Samuel Taylor Coleridges The Rime Of the Ancient Mariner is a wonderful example of an alliteration. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; The use of the repetitive letter f make it sound more realistic and poeti...