TY - JOUR
TI - Lucan’s Use of Alliteration
AU - Pypłacz, Joanna
TI - Lucan’s Use of Alliteration
AB - 
	The present article gives a rough outline of Lucan’s use of alliteration by attempting to discover the most important functions of this particular rhetorical device in his epic. For the sake of clarity, the instances of alliteration that are found in the epic are divided into three groups: ‘pure’ (of one and the same consonant), ‘mixed’ (of two or more consonants) and ‘combined’ (accompanied by other rhetorical devices). Lucan’s use of alliteration is shown to extend far beyond the achievement of an instantaneous sound effect at the level of a single line or even a single passage. In several cases, alliteration is used as a means of association in order to allow the poet to connect passages that seemingly have nothing in common. This in turn leads to the conclusion that Lucan’s compositional scheme – based on allusions and association – is present even at the level of the phoneme.
	 
VL - 2016
IS - Volume 11, Issue 4
PY - 2016
SN - 1897-3035
C1 - 2084-3933
SP - 231
EP - 245
DO - 10.4467/20843933ST.16.021.5926
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/lucans-use-of-alliteration
KW - Lucan
KW - alliteration
KW - Pharsalia
KW - allusion
KW - association
KW - sound eff ect
KW - fi gure of speech
KW - intertextuality