alliterative

alliteration | American Dictionary

alliteration
noun[ U ]
us/ə·lɪt̬·əˈreɪ·ʃən/
English
the repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words, as in "live and learn"

Examples of alliteration

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They indicate that the versifier avoided breaking more than one rule at once: verses without the alliteration also lack multiple metrical-grammatical requirements for it.
Where this choice is not influenced by alliteration, each term may have been intended to convey a specific image appropriate to its immediate context.
The final three chapters address the issue of cluster alliteration, with chapter 6 the high point of the entire book.
Indeed, many of her innovations are both brilliant and thoroughly convincing: her accounts of cluster alliteration and vocalic alliteration are particularly fine.
The usual assumption, it seems, has been that alliteration of the different velars has simply been a matter of poetic convention.
It appears that ornamental alliteration has here been made ancillary to the functional, the unnecessary rhetorically reinforcing the necessary.
Two exceptions have patterns of sound perhaps analogous to double alliteration which may have sanctioned them.
The rhetoricians generally distinguish between figures of sense, such as metaphor, and figures of sound, such as alliteration, but the distinction is rarely sharp.
The alliteration task was presented on a day after the rhyme matching task and took the same form (two blocks of 8 trials).
Ten verses are aberrant in regard to metre and/or alliteration.
Thus, performance levels should be very similar when the phonological similarity of foils and targets is equated in rhyme and alliteration tasks.
And ad-makers have a special fondness for rhyme and alliteration and make free use of clichés.
Second, both rhyme and alliteration matching tasks were used in order to compare the two tasks directly.
Interestingly, children were confused by globally matched stimuli in the alliteration task but not by distractors that were matched for both phonological and semantic similarity.
A greater number of children performed above chance on the rhyme task than on the alliteration task.
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