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.