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Alliterate vs. Illiterate
Alliterate
Examples:
She loves to alliterate when writing poetry.The slogan was designed to alliterate for memorability.You often find authors alliterate for stylistic effect.
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Illiterate
/ɪˈlɪtərət/Examples:
He wrote a letter rife with illiterate mistakes.Many remote areas still have a largely illiterate population.Her illiterate explanation left everyone confused.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Illiterate refers to someone who cant read or write, making them unable to literally' engage with written content.
- The all in alliteration suggests repetition, as alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.
- If youre illiterate, reading and recognizing alliterations' in a text might be challenging.
- Remember, illiterate focuses on lack of reading skills, while alliterate relates to a stylistic literary technique.
- To alliterate is to create a pattern in writing, but to be illiterate is to lack the basic skills to read such a pattern.
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