Hemingway's simple, journalistic style does not allow for
much alliteration or flowery prose. He's a straight shooter, and his narrative voice
offers little prosody.
Here are a few
examples:
- "His choice had been to stay in the
deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and
treacheries." - “I’ll kill him though,” he
said. “In all his greatness and his
glory.” - “I must hold his pain where it is,
he thought. Mine does not
matter." - “But man is not made for
defeat...A man can be destroyed but not
defeated.”
As you can tell,
these examples of alliteration are usually coordinated at the end of sentences to serve
as a flourish. Usually, there's "and" or other filler words in between so that the
alliteration is broken up slightly. In all, Hemingway uses alliteration sparingly so as
to keep the narrative grounded in the way fishermen talk.
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