Which lines of poetry are the best example of alliteration? ( From the poem, " the raven" by Edgar Allan Poe)
The best example of alliteration in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe can be found in the following lines:
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,"
"But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,"
"And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, 'Lenore!'"
"And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
In these lines, the repeated use of the same initial consonant sound (tapping/tapping, silence/stillness, word/whispered, separate/ember) demonstrates alliteration.