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...

of words, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhythm may convey musical or incantatory effects....

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

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

Friedland said he had mentioned Ghetto Gaggers because he found the alliteration in the title funny and did not "even know if [Healy] was watching that...

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

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...

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

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...

a product benefit or function, such as "Whole Foods" or "Toys R' Us" alliteration and rhyme: names that are fun to say and which stick in the mind, such...

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...

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

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

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...

λιτή (litḗ), λιτανεία (litaneía) litany liter- letter Latin littera alliteration, alliterative, biliteral, biliterate, illiteracy, illiterate, literacy...

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

occurrences within Germania. Nevertheless, various aspects such as the alliteration of many of the tribal names in Tacitus's account and the name of Mannus...

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

mountain height" illustrate his telling combination of onomatopoeia, alliteration, and assonance: The moan of doves in immemorial elms And murmuring of...

stress is also important. Virgil also incorporated such poetic devices as alliteration, onomatopoeia, synecdoche, and assonance. Furthermore, he uses personification...

humorous focus on atypical names of these characters, which often contain alliteration. In keeping with Jerry Seinfeld's reputation as a clean comedian, though...

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:...

several poetry styles in Telugu literature. Aesopian language Albur Alliteration Auto-antonym Dad joke Dajare Double entendre False etymology Mondegreen...

verse technique that was syllabic and used assonance, half rhyme and alliteration, among other conventions. As officials of the court of king or chieftain...

before eventually progressing to the first team during the 1990s. The alliteration in the term is a clear homage to the Busby Babes, the famously youthful...

The book was released on September 17, 2013. Responding to the lack of alliteration on the title in comparison to the previous ones in the series, Lindsay...

alternates between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. The poem employs alliteration, anaphora, simile, satire, and internal rhyme but no regular end rhyme...

two main ingredients (coca leaves and kola nuts) and because it is an alliteration. John Pemberton had taken a break and left Robinson to make, promote...