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Alliteration is the
repetition of syllable-initial
consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial
vowels if the
syllables in
question do...
- The term
alliteration was
invented by the
Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), in his
dialogue Actius, to
describe the
practice common in Virgil...
- In prosody,
alliterative verse is a form of
verse that uses
alliteration as the prin****l
device to
indicate the
underlying metrical structure, as opposed...
- use a
variety of
techniques called poetic devices, such as ****onance,
alliteration,
euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia,
rhythm (via metre), and
sound symbolism...
- The most
salient feature of Old
English poetry is its
heavy use of
alliteration. The most
widely used
system for
classifying Old
English prosodic patterns...
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commonalities with Old English, Old Saxon, and Old High
German poetry,
including alliteration,
poetic cir****locutions
termed kennings, and an
expansive vocabulary...
- as the
counterpart to the vowel-sound
repetition known as ****onance.
Alliteration is a
special case of
consonance where the
repeated consonant sound is...
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typically support several different kinds of
rhymes and
possibly also
alliteration as well.
Because rhyming dictionaries are
based on pronunciation, they...
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fragments of text in The
Silmarillion that the
poetry of
Beleriand used
alliteration, rhyme, and
rhythm including possibly iambics. This
applies to the Ainulindalë...
- "Peter Piper" is an English-language
nursery rhyme and well-known
alliteration tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song
Index number of 19745. The traditional...
