It is interesting that students use alliteration so often
in their conversations, but yet seemed somewhat puzzled when called upon to identify it
in a work of literature. Unlike assonance, which is the repetition of a particular
vowel sound, alliteration, the repetition of initial cosonant sounds, can be recognized
visually as well as phonetically.
Here are some additional
examples with the letter's sound indicated:
CHAPTER
1
(the very first
sentence!)
readability="6">
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got
his arm badly broken at the elbow
/b/
As Scout relates the
family history, she describes her father's law office in the sixth
paragraph:
readability="9">
Atticus's office in the courthouse contained
litle more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard, and an unsullied Code of
Alabama. /c/
In this same
chapter, the final paragraph contains another
example:
The
old house was the same, droopy and sick, but as we stared down the street we thought we
saw inside shutter move.
/s/
CHAPTER
2
In the thirty-first paragraph, Scout describes the action
of her teacher:
readability="8">
Miss Caroline walked up and down the rows peering
and poking into lunch containers, nodding if the contents pleased her, frowning a little
at others. /p/
As Burris
Ewell leaves the schoolroom, he shouts back at Miss
Caroline,
readability="5">
'Aint' no snot-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever
born c'n make me do nothin'!' /s/ and
/m/
CHAPTER
3
Not far from the end of the chapter, Atticus explains the
history of the Ewells to the children:
readability="7">
'In certain circumstances, the common folk
judiciously allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to
some of the Ewells activites.' /c/
/b/
CHAPTER
4
In paragraph eighteen, Scout describes a change at
home:
For some
reason,...Calpurnia's tyranny unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to
gentle grumblings of general
disapproval.
CHAPTER
5
Describing their childhood play, Scout narrates in the
fourth paragraph,
readability="8">
Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we
could play on lawn,...terms so generous we seldom spoke to her, so careful were we to
preserve the delicate balance of our relationship.... /t/
/m/
CHAPTER
6
As the children sit with Dill on his last night in
Maycomb, Scout notices,
readability="5">
There was a lady in the moon in Maycomb.
/m/
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