Fiction Feloniously Filched!

[erastes]

Here:

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1443612/?show_files=1&page=1&ref=1213707470#file_list

Scott & Scott (Romentics), Keira Andrews, Kira Stone, Rob Knight, Sara Bell, Alex Draven, Sean Michael, Pluto, Lorne Rodman, Julia Talbot, BA Tortuga, JL Langley,

And this is the first of my alphabet blog meme posts: Alliteration


Apparently (and I had to go and look this up) Alliteration is only the repetition of a consonant sound - so a Cockney repeating that phrase, Eliza Dolittle for example, would not be accused of it.

In 'Ertford, 'Ereford an' 'Ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly 'appen.

Or, Angela ate an apple wouldn't count either. That could be assonance, but I'm not qualified to say. If someone wants to explain the difference between consonance and alliteration, I'm all agog. (See what I did there?)

I'm not mad on the device, to be honest. I've used it, but not in general prose - used to use it deliberately in heavy slipstream style stories. But I think that it's more effective in an ordinary piece when it happens spontaneously and the writer hasn't even noticed . I've had comments back pointing out when I've used it and they liked it, but often I didn't even notice it. On a personal level, as a reader, I think I prefer it in more literary works or poetry where the author can lay it on with a trowel and it doesn't get too much. It can be a bit clichéd at times, "slithery snake" and words like that, but used with more unusual consonants it can be quite beautiful.

Comments

[aperfectscar.livejournal.com]

I used to know the answer to that. I don't any more.

Isn't assonance to do with repeated vowel sounds?

Wikipedia says: Alliteration differs from consonance insofar as alliteration requires the repeated consonant sound to be at the beginning of each word, where in consonance it is anywhere within the word, although often at the end.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you - that's useful! More difficult to achieve well, I'd imagine.

[aunty_marion]

Assonance is when you have something that doesn't quite rhyme, isn't it? (I seem to remember Eustace Scrubb saying that, or something like it, in the first chapter of Voyage of the Dawn Treader.) So 'fine' and 'time' are an assonance. I think.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

DId he? Oh how wonderful! Love "old" Eustace!

[aunty_marion]

"Once upon a time there was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it..."

I believe he was 'rhyming' "Narnia" and "barmier" and claimed that was an assonance. So.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I remember now! *laughing*

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

Oh, but it works in Poe's The Raven and its 'silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.' Have I got that right? I dunno. It's one of the alliterative instances that doesn't seem too precious. I think it's perfect especially there, which is what my mom used to explain alliteration to me when I was a kid.

Check out the Icon for alliteration.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, I meant to mention Poe - he's one of the best users I know!

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

I just saw your icon. Timothy Dalton. Am ded.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

That scene in that film is to DIE for.

:)

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.

'I've been down every street in hell'

'I never saw you there'

Or words to that effect.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd written that...

[megleigh.livejournal.com]

Great post. I never knew there were such things as assonance and consonance as well. As for the feloniously filched fiction, I am quite querulous and quarrelsome (groan) about it!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thanks hun!