Alliteration is the repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels if the syllables in question do...

The term alliteration was invented by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), in his dialogue Actius, to describe the practice common in Virgil...

In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed...

use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm (via metre), and sound symbolism...

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...

commonalities with Old English, Old Saxon, and Old High German poetry, including alliteration, poetic circumlocutions termed kennings, and an expansive vocabulary...

typically support several different kinds of rhymes and possibly also alliteration as well. Because rhyming dictionaries are based on pronunciation, they...

as the counterpart to the vowel-sound repetition known as assonance. Alliteration is a special case of consonance where the repeated consonant sound is...

fragments of text in The Silmarillion that the poetry of Beleriand used alliteration, rhyme, and rhythm including possibly iambics. This applies to the Ainulindalë...

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...

Kingdom, most literary works were written in simple prose with certain alliteration schemes. Major works include King Ram Khamhaeng Inscription describing...

"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...

use of word play, including puns, allusions, and metaphors, as well as alliteration and assonance, especially in its headlines and captions. This can make...

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...

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...

various natural or cultural references. Many include rhyming and/or alliteration, and their distinction from aphorisms and proverbs are not always clear...

qualities of language, including musical devices such as assonance, alliteration, rhyme, and rhythm, and by being set in lines and verses rather than...

Syntax Word order Tenses Conditional clauses Indirect speech Subjunctive by attraction Temporal clauses Clausula (rhetoric) Hyperbaton Alliteration v t e...

melodic rhyming, repetition, word play, laconic phrases, syncopation—and alliteration, his music often addresses the lifestyle and culture of the West Coast...

Syntax Word order Tenses Conditional clauses Indirect speech Subjunctive by attraction Temporal clauses Clausula (rhetoric) Hyperbaton Alliteration v t e...

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...

politically incorrect. Many irreversible binomials are catchy due to alliteration, rhyming, or ablaut reduplication, so becoming clichés or catchphrases...

Calvin's self-narration as Spaceman Spiff is frequently riddled with alliteration: "Zounds! Zorched by Zarches, Spaceman Spiff's crippled craft crashes...

prompting a certain reaction through auditory perception.[page needed] Alliteration is the repetition of the sound of an initial consonant or consonant cluster...

short incantation, the episode starts with latinate prose, Anglo-Saxon alliteration, and moves on through parodies of, among others, Malory, the King James...

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...

Vicar" and "James Bond Lives Down Our Street", and songs titles often use alliteration, such as "Peter Practice's Practice Place", "Fisticuffs in Frederick...

wer are archaic terms for adult male humans and were often used for alliteration with wife as "were and wife" in Germanic-speaking cultures (Old English:...

Percenters. Rappers use the literary techniques of double entendres, alliteration, and forms of wordplay that are found in classical poetry. Similes and...

literal meaning but also of its form and structure (meter, rhyme or alliteration scheme, etc.). The Russian-born linguist and semiotician Roman Jakobson...