Crossword clues for alliteration
alliteration
- Repeating first letters
- Repeated first letters
- Poetic rhyming device using words with the same initial letter
- Peter practised poetic ploy perfectly
- Initial repetition is only repetition after all
- Term to typify “Troubled toenail trial”?
- "Peck of pickled peppers," e.g
- ". . . peck of pickled peppers," e.g
- "Peter Piper picked," e.g
- using ___: Lisa loved her little lamb / Its wool was white and waxen
- Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
- Fe, fi, fo, fum, e.g.
- "Peter Piper picked . . . ," e.g.
- WORDS WORK WONDERS
- Simultaneous stressed syllables similarly starting so, say?
- Nothing but repetition? Rather regular repetition, perhaps
- A feature of double dosing doing everything with repetition
- Repetition of first letters
- Repetition is, after all, Peter Piper's speciality
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alliteration \Al*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. ad + litera letter. See Letter.] The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines:
Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
His vastness.
--Milton.
Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.
--Tennyson.
Note: The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort. Later poets also employed it.
In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were.
--P.
Plowman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "a begining with the same letter," from Modern Latin alliterationem (nominative alliteratio), noun of action from past participle stem of alliterare "to begin with the same letter," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + littera (also litera) "letter, script" (see letter). Formed on model of obliteration, etc. Related: Alliterational.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals. 2 The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
WordNet
n. use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran" [syn: initial rhyme, beginning rhyme, head rhyme]
Wikipedia
Alliteration is a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase. "Alliteration" from the Latin word “litera”, meaning “letters of the alphabet”, and the first known use of the word to refer to a literary device occurred around 1624. Alliteration narrowly refers to the repetition of a letter in any syllables that, according to the poem's meter, are stressed, as in James Thomson's verse "Come…dragging the lazy languid Line along". Another example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers".
Consonance is a broader literary device identified by the repetition of consonant sounds at any point in a word (e.g. coming home, hot foot). Alliteration is a special case of consonance where the repeated consonant sound is at the stressed syllable. Alliteration may also include the use of different consonants with similar properties such as alliterating z with s, as does the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or as Anglo-Saxon (Old English) poets would alliterate hard/fricative g with soft g (the latter exemplified in some courses as the letter yogh – ȝ – pronounced like the y in yarrow or the j in Jotunheim); this is known as license.
There is one specialised form of alliteration called Symmetrical Alliteration. That is, alliteration containing parallelism. In this case, the phrase must have a pair of outside end words both starting with the same sound, and pairs of outside words also starting with matching sounds as one moves progressively closer to the centre. For example, "rust brown blazers rule", "purely and fundamentally for analytical purposes" or "fluoro colour co-ordination forever". Symmetrical alliteration is similar to palindromes in its use of symmetry.
Usage examples of "alliteration".
This is at once more descriptive and more megalophonous,--but the alliteration of the text had captivated the vulgar ear of the herd of later commentators.
The second of these lines makes notable use of alliteration in the repetition of first letters of words: dreadful marches, delightful measures.
In five stanzas, of ten lines each, alliteration occurs in all save twelve lines.
Assorted Alliteration Annexe, the superior sellers of stressed syllable or similar-sounding speech sequences since the sixteenth century.
No one ever possessed superior intellectual qualities without knowing them--the alliteration of modesty and merit is pretty enough, but where merit is great, the veil of that modesty you admire never disguises its extent from its possessor.
Loose regular meter, alliteration, stylised phrasing, and structuring by repetition are the principal poetic devices.
She would have liked to point out to it in terms of passionate reproach that if he had only kept on turtling instead of parking provocatively in the exact middle of a dirt road she, Lorna Bland, sometimes called Blondie because of the inevitable alliteration, would not now be married to a long-legged, grunting maniac, capable of seeing life only through the lens of a camera.
Homage was paid to it in iambi and trochees, in trisyllabic feet, Buchnerian dactyls, and alexandrines, with metathesis, alliteration, internal rhymes, and nimble improvisations.
The very name of the patriarch may have suggested this triple epithet, obscure as to its meaning, but evidently formed on the principle of Cymric alliteration.
A devotional recitation of Do and Vinaya, prayers cloistered century after century in the soot, fingered on wooden boards by wrinkled flesh, the flesh of alliteration that clings to these words of the Guatama.
I have no intention of criticizing the alliteration of the Vice President of the United States of America.
Persons McDermidhad a certain alliterative charm, but the alliteration seemed strained inMcDermid Reaches a Milestone.
Well, even as there are rhymes for the eye, so you will find that there are assonances and alliterations.
He shouldn't wonder, Bellerophon believes (echoing for a moment, if lamely, the prancing rhythms and alliterations of the Perseid), as it was he showed Bellerus as a boy the Pattern of Mythic Heroism, fourth quadrant of which calls for the mature hero's sudden and mysterious fall from the favor of gods and men.
Into the wee hours he tinkered determinedly with beverage-related alliterations, allusions, puns, verses and metaphors.