Alliteration

Alliteration is when a sentence or phrase has words that start with the same sound. It is commonly used in advertising, poetry, headlines, and tongue-twisters...

A tongue-twister is a phrase that is hard to say. They often use alliteration and homophones. They are commonly employed to help warm up singers and actors...

had let the gun Rest on his shoulder. From time to time the poet uses alliteration. Where the skyscrapers lift their foggy plumes Of stranded smoke out...

Crane is known for his attention to the sounds of language. He used alliteration, rhymes and internal assonance. The assonance, that is repeating of the...

exception (the so-called Rhyming Poem), Anglo-Saxon poetry depends on alliteration for its structure. Any rhyme included is just ornamental. Bede, Historia...

whenever he would make a decision she would speak in Latin (using rhyme and alliteration): Rex Auguste, iudica iuste ("King August, judge justly"). He followed...

contrasting ideas in the same sentence with similar sentence structures Alliteration—when a sentence or phrase has many words that start with the same sound...

being set in Scandinavia. The poem is written with no rhymes but with alliteration. The next important landmark is the works of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer...

verse forms and free verse as well. He is also known to have employed alliteration and puns. Holan was also a translator. He translated European literature...

Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner there are rhymes and alliteration: The fat breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free;...

section is written in iambic pentameter. In some places the poet uses alliteration. The poem tells about a young man, named Clarel, who went on a trip to...

Julian Krzyżanowski, editor of Szarzyński's poems, points out the use of alliteration in them. Szarzyński's poems were translated into English by Steven Clancy...

hight sweet Bellimperia by name. There are no rhymes in blank verse, but alliteration often occurs in it, for example "prime and pride". William Shakespeare's...

verse prevails in English epic poems. From time to time the poet used alliteration: Thus in her pride of power I see her now;/Her swarming streets; her...

Arunagirinathar who wrote hymns of praise with complicated grammar patterns and alliteration and onomatopoeia. Tamil folk music have hymns written praising the beauty...

List of literary terms: in alphabetical order. An abecedarius is an acrostic where the first letter of every word or verse follows the order of the alphabet...

recognizable writing style. Wulfstan plays with sounds in his prose. He uses alliteration (repetition of sounds at the beginning of two or more successive words)...