alliteration

always avoid alliteration

that's when people use messy words scattered all over the page!!

seriously though; alliteration is the forming of a descriptive phrase, by using words starting with and/or containing the same letter to reinforce the image being created:

the strong, supple, snake slithered softly over the soothing sand.

thank yous so how to undersand the similarity of the word pair?
alliterate:remove::blazon:efface

first i don't know if "yous" was a typo, or mistake but, there is no such word; 'you' is both singular and plural (no 's').

second; what is the context of your question; where did these word pairs come from?

the second blazon and efface are, more or less opposites, but i don't see that relationship with alliteration and remove?

[and something i have not suggested previously; get yourself a 'good' (sizable) version, of the Oxford English Dictionary, and refer to it constantly, and your questions may fade away. - if you have a Websters dictionary, throw it away, now!]

Neoquixote

I think you mean "obliterate", "to blot out, to efface from memory".

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.....

yeh, i wish those damn curtains would make up their minds!

[maybe we should 'obliterate' them? ]

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning--little relevancy bore;

In reference to the 'Websters" yes!

thanks Crave; that's the most eloquent, poetic 'put down' i've recieved here to date!

That's what ya get for being quizzical in the presence of a Poe (as in 'a Rembrant' or 'a Picasso').

'Twas supposed to be adulation.

being me, adulation bores me, but from you!

[i'm also used to 'adolession'............. ]

No no, you were supposed to express adulation for Poe. But you didn't and now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

oops; when i screw up, i don't screw up at it, eh?

technical definition: The repetition of beginning consonant sounds. Now that you have excellent examples, the definition will make more sense.

then there is assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds:

".....making moan...." Yeats, I think

Yeeks, 'I' think!

Nevermore....

Exactly, you clever Aussie.

Oops. It was James Joyce:

All day I hear the noise of waters
Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird is, when going
Forth alone,
He hears the winds cry to the waters'
Monotone.

The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing
Where I go.
I hear the noise of many waters
Far below.
All day, all night, I hear them flowing
To and fro.

Hmmm - Joyce's poetry? Hmmmmmm....