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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 starts with ill-, a prefix often associated with negation, meaning not able to read or write.
- Alliterate begins with all-, resembling alley where similar sounds echo, indicating the repetition of similar sounds.
- To remember: illiterate is related to literacy, and not having it, while alliterate comes from alliteration, which is a literary device.
- Imagine illiterate as a chain holding someone back from books, while alliterate is like a rhyme, helping link words together.
- Remember that illiterate deals with the inability related to letters, whereas alliterate plays with sound in a literary context.
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