Alliteration from the Top AP English Exam Literature

"The light from the porthole was a pulsing purple."- Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

"I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death."- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land. - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”-"The Dead", James Joyce

"The dawns were heralded by a descent of a chill stillness..." Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

"Below the sky sheet-lightning slumbers lightly; against it the trees, motionless, are ruffled out to the last twig, swollen, increased as though quick and young.”- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

"... neither of those can feel stranger and stronger emotions than the man does, who for the first time finds himself pulling into the charmed, churned circle of the hunted sperm whale."- Moby Dick, Herman Melville

...while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves."- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"-The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

"...there is meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable"- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

"The colonel had really been investigated. There was not an organ of his body that had not been drugged and derogated, dusted and dredged, fingered and photographed, removed, plundered and replaced"- Catch-22, Joseph Heller