alliterations

Meanings

• Noun

  The practice of repeating the same initial consonant sound in the beginning of several words in a row in a phrase or a series of phrases.

  - "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
  - "Sally sells seashells by the seashore."

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Variants

List of all variants of alliterations that leads to same result
alliteration , alliterations , head rhyme , initial rhyme

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Etymology

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From Old French 'alliterare', from 'alis' meaning 'other' and 'littera' meaning 'letter'.

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Trivia

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1. Alliteration was used extensively in Old English poetry and was an important part of Anglo-Saxon culture.

2. The longest alliterative poem in Old English is 'The Battle of Maldon', which was written around 993 AD.

3. The word 'alliteration' was first used in English in the late 15th century.

4. Alliteration is not limited to English language and can be found in many other languages as well.

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Related Concepts

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1. Assonance: Similar sounding vowels in words, but different consonants.

2. Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate the sounds they represent.

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Quotes

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1. More specifically, how are actual events deformed by the application to them of metaphor, rhetorical comparison, prose rhythm, assonance, "alliteration", allusion, and sentence structures and connectives implying clear causality?

   - Paul Fussel,{it}The Great War and Modern Memory{/it},1975

2. As far as sound repetition goes, I don't have any principles. I try to stay away from heavy "alliteration" and other pyrotechnics because I think they detract from the sense of the poem and blur the imagery.

   - Maxine Kumin,"A Questionnaire",1977,{"source"=>"in {it}To Make a Prairie{/it}", "aqdate"=>"1979"}

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Culture

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Alliteration is a literary device that has been used in various forms of literature, including poetry and prose, for centuries. It is often used to create rhythm, add emphasis, and make language more memorable. Alliteration has been used in many famous works of literature, such as Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' and Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky'.

How to Memorize "alliterations"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a sentence where each word starts with the same letter. For example, 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'. Visualize the words in your mind and repeat the sentence to yourself.

2. associate
   

   - Create associations between the words that start with the same letter. For example, 'Peter Piper' could be associated with the letter 'P'.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic device, such as a sentence or acronym, to help remember the words that start with the same letter. For example, 'Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally' (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division, Addition and Subtraction, and Order of Operations) can be used to remember the order of mathematical operations.

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