Inglise keele stilistika
A.Tennyson, by the use of consonants,
suggests firmness and hardness of the eagle and rock in
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands...
In the following example the initial ,,f" is particularly appropriate to the image of the
blowing wind: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free ... (S.T. Coleridge)
The above example shows that alliteration may become onomatopoetic in quality.
Consider also the following instance:
Welling water's winsome word,
Wind in warm wan weather .. (S.T.Coleridge)
Another function of alliteration lies in connecting words by similarity of sound so that you
are made to think of their possible connections:
Good-bye, to Flattery's fawning face;
To Grandeur with his wise grimace ..(Emerson)
There have been attempts to define the expressive value of separate sounds. It has been
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