Alliteration

Alliteration, which is not yet dead, and which is still used in his time, he does not like; its jingle seems to him ridiculous:

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Waller's Life ascribes to him the first practice of what Erythraeus and some late critics call "Alliteration," of using in the same verse many words beginning with the same letter.

Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley Samuel Johnson 1746

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Alliteration Attracts Amazingly Well 2008

Alliteration, assonance, rhymes terminal and medial, all rebound in lines that seem

Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

Alliteration was popular, though by no means universal, in Old English naming conventions, so these may indicate that Cearl belonged to a branch of the dynasty that claimed descent from one or other of these figures.

Cearl, King of the Mercians Carla 2009

Alliteration was popular, though by no means universal, in Old English naming conventions, so these may indicate that Cearl belonged to a branch of the dynasty that claimed descent from one or other of these figures.

Archive 2009-08-01 Carla 2009

"Alliteration: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words."

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Alliteration is so fun and plethora is just fun by itself.

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Alliteration has to be either the first letter consonant or a first-syllable vowel sound.

Spokesman: Romney Not "Equating Or Comparing Anyone" When Holding "Obama Osama" Sign 2009

• Alliteration is a form of emphasis through the repetition of initial consonant letters or sounds across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases.

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