User blog comment:Drgyen/Is H.T. overusing alliteration and metaphors in many of his works?/@comment-25626-20101128005359

Alliteration? Not to be a jerk, but I do not it means what you think it means.

Alliteration is the repetition of sounds in the first syllable. Love's Labour's Lost is an example--everything starts with the letter "L". This isn't really easy to do in prose.

Since you also taked about metaphors, I think you might mean "allusion" which is a figure of speech that makes a reference, usually to a literary work.

I find neither particularly troublesome in and of themselves. They do sometimes emphasize how HT frequently repetitive can be, but I think most are just fine.