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Alliteration vs Personification - What's the difference?

alliteration | personification |

As nouns the difference between alliteration and personification

is that alliteration is the repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals while personification is a person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

alliteration

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
  • The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

    • Related terms

    * alliterative * alliteratively * alliterativeness

    See also

    * ("alliteration" on Wikipedia)

    personification

    English

    (wikipedia personification)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
    • Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
  • A figure of speech,in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
    • The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
  • An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
    • The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.