We studied the Concordance to Shakespeare to accumulate examples of alliteration.
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Alliteration
/əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/
Synonyms for "alliteration" (52 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (15)
droneeye rhymefigure of speechharpinghumdrumjinglejingle-janglemalapropismmetaphormonotonemonotonynear rhyme
Noun(3 words)
head rhymeinitial rhymeinitial sound repetition
Related words (26)
paronomasiapitter patterpitter-patterpunrepeated soundsrepetitiousnessrepetitivenessrhymerhyme royalrhyme schemerhyming dictionarysimilesingle rhymesingsongslant rhymespeechstale repetitiontail rhymetediumtrot
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unnecessary repetitionunrhymed poetry
Noun(4 words)
phoneme awareness activityphonemic exercisesound pattern activitysound repetition
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4 entriesphoneme drillpoem linereading exercisetongue twister
Collocations
6 entriesclear alliterationconsonant alliterationinitial alliterationlinguistic alliterationpoetic alliterationstrong alliteration
Inflections
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2 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Old English poetry was based on alliteration rather than end rhyme.
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I don't like Tom Jackson's writing because of all the facile alliteration.
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So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past. And as an aside, that alliteration was, sadly, not mine that of a former political correspondent of the Daily Record, John Deans, and applied to the 'cod wars' with Iceland.
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