• Alliteration is the repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels, if the syllables in question do...
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  • The term alliteration was invented by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), in his dialogue Actius, to describe the practice common in Virgil...
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    In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed...
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    use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm (via metre), and sound symbolism...
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  • commonalities with Old English, Old Saxon, and Old High German poetry, including alliteration, poetic circumlocutions termed kennings, and an expansive vocabulary...
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  • fragments of text in The Silmarillion that the poetry of Beleriand used alliteration, rhyme, and rhythm including possibly iambics. This applies to the Ainulindalë...
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  • as the counterpart to the vowel-sound repetition known as assonance. Alliteration is a special case of consonance where the repeated consonant sound is...
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  • The most salient feature of Old English poetry is its heavy use of alliteration. The most widely used system for classifying Old English prosodic patterns...
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    Kingdom, most literary works were written in simple prose with certain alliteration schemes. Major works include King Ram Khamhaeng Inscription describing...
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    effect can also be produced in a phrase or word string with the help of alliteration and consonance alone, without using any onomatopoeic words. The most...
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    "Peter Piper" is an English-language nursery rhyme and well-known alliteration tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19745. The traditional...
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    qualities of language, including musical devices such as assonance, alliteration, rhyme, and rhythm, and by being set in lines and verses rather than...
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    use of word play, including puns, allusions, and metaphors, as well as alliteration and assonance, especially in its headlines and captions. This can make...
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    expression "kun lehmät lentävät" (when cows fly) is used because of its alliteration. In French, the most common expression is "quand les poules auront des...
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  • typically support several different kinds of rhymes and possibly also alliteration as well. Because rhyming dictionaries are based on pronunciation, they...
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  • triple alliteration in a line, having two pairs of double alliterations on either side of the pause, or only having a single double alliteration, with...
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  • Syntax Word order Tenses Conditional clauses Indirect speech Subjunctive by attraction Temporal clauses Clausula (rhetoric) Hyperbaton Alliteration v t e...
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  • monotonous effect is reinforced by the assonance of dent ... dent and the alliteration of S ... S: ... Et / iam nox / umida / caelo praecipi/tat, sua/déntque...
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  • pathetic that banks hand over money. Saxon – A crook who always speaks in alliteration. Skulllface – Eloc – Eloc is Cole spelled backwards. Skunk – AKA the...
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  • Syntax Word order Tenses Conditional clauses Indirect speech Subjunctive by attraction Temporal clauses Clausula (rhetoric) Hyperbaton Alliteration v t e...
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    had become offensive. Many irreversible binomials are catchy due to alliteration, rhyming, or ablaut reduplication, so becoming clichés or catchphrases...
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  • various natural or cultural references. Many include rhyming and/or alliteration, and their distinction from aphorisms and proverbs are not always clear...
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  • a call to attention. English poetry is based on stress and alliteration. In alliteration, the first consonant in a word alliterates with the same consonant...
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  • Calvin's self-narration as Spaceman Spiff is frequently riddled with alliteration: "Zounds! Zorched by Zarches, Spaceman Spiff's crippled craft crashes...
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    short incantation, the episode starts with latinate prose, Anglo-Saxon alliteration, and moves on through parodies of, among others, Malory, the King James...
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    example of alliteration, where the consonant r is used repeatedly. "Sister Suzy‘s sewing socks for soldiers" is a particular form of alliteration called sibilance...
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    quality, as well as 'linking with rhythm' in his compound rhymes, using alliteration, and employing a "sparse" flow with good use of pauses. Broadus listed...
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    knew them both called Connery by his middle name Sean, emphasising the alliteration of the two names. Since then Connery preferred to use his middle name...
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    verse technique that was syllabic and used assonance, half rhyme and alliteration, among other conventions. As officials of the court of king or chieftain...
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    prompting a certain reaction through auditory perception.[page needed] Alliteration is the repetition of the sound of an initial consonant or consonant cluster...
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