Alliteration

A reader who likes my alliteration found this specimen in a post from 2010:

The sobriety of solitary silence is superior to the sloughing off of self into the social . . . .

Perhaps I overdo it. An argument against alliterative excess is that it could distract the reader from the content.  

A good writer attends to his style, but does not permit style to get in the way of content.

"Style is the physiognomy of the mind," wrote Schopenhauer to open his great essay, On Style.

Here is a long list of literary devices. There I go, alliterating again.  I did not do it intentionally! It just came out like that.