alliteration

How To Use alliteration In A Sentence

• parallelism" is made more pointed by means of alliteration, e.g. "shrined thee for a trusty friend," "shun thee as a trothless foe"; musk John Lyly
• Through alliteration, anaphora, parallelism and slant-rhyme, Sleigh builds momentum into the eleven, rhythmic couplets and suggests a train's smooth travel.
• In the poet's medieval French, the verse displays intricate internal rhymes and numerous alliterations.
• She is masterful in her ability to capture and juxtapose the audible qualities of language alongside the literary tools of assonance and alliteration.
• I've decided on a name that has a radical feel and contains alliteration.
• Even when they employ new or traditional auditory forms, they often tone down the musical effects by deliberately flattening the rhythms, avoiding end-stopped lines, and eliminating noticeable alliteration or assonance.
• Many proverbs use alliteration: "Many a mickle (little) makes a muckle (lot)," rhyme: "Man proposes, God disposes," parallelism: "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," ellipsis: "First come, first served," etc. The Nature Of Proverbs
• Analogous to alliteration and perhaps to be classed as a by-form of it is the subtle use of the same sound in unstressed parts of neighboring words, as in -- The Principles of English Versification
• They use alliteration and rhythmic art in a way that has been compared to the prose of Ælfric.
• The 1959 set also had Keystone Combo, which is an even higher form of alliteration where the two words sound alike but begin with different letters.