Top 42 Quotes About Alliteration
#2. He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like it came from the hand of a blind doctor writing his own morphine scripts in an earthquake.
Robert Wilder
#3. Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.
Ben Gibbard
#4. Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it reminded us citizens that our domain of orderly domesticity was graced by the dominant power of our 'Dominus.'
Rick Moranis
#5. Who needs sense when you have alliteration?
Mark Forsyth
#6. His rap was fluid, on time, and in tune. He ad-libbed - or "freestyled" - using a range of poetic tricks, from rhyme and repetition to assonance and alliteration:
Kevin Ashton
#7. Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
Margaret Atwood
#9. No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration."
I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.
Kevin Hearne
#10. Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.
Amy Lowell
#11. Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited.
Frederick Lenz
#12. There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.
Moira J. Moore
#13. A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
Albert Brooks
#14. Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
Truman Capote
#15. Indeed, it has to be said that the percentage of old human sayings and proverbs that are actually true is very far from 100 percent. Seems it may be less important that it be true than that it rhyme, or show alliteration or the like. What goes around comes around: really? What does this mean?
Kim Stanley Robinson
#16. Dinted
dimpled wimpled
his mind wandered down echoing corridors of
assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the
point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.
Aldous Huxley
#17. I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics
Tituss Burgess
#18. Wake up to think of words ... want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.
Initially NO
#19. Jack furiously chopped vegetables. Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm ... Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack.
Kiersten White
#21. Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Charles Churchill
#22. Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter ... with alliteration, no less!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#23. One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.
Lewis Carroll
#24. Alliteration is not a prostitute to be sold to every sailor who visits the port. This fine lady is a valuable literary diva one should ask to sing her aria only for special occasions.
Dennis Vickers
#25. The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.
Catherynne M Valente
#26. Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and ... reproduction.
Kelley Armstrong
#27. Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir.
Gregory Maguire
#28. They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.
Shashi Tharoor
#29. And the Austrian army, awfully arrayed, boldly, by battery, besieged Belgrade.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
#30. Crouching in position posing in perfect posture
On the rooftop of a gothic cathedral sits a monster
Justin Bienvenue
#31. Unaware that he is only interested in the presumed parched pucker in her pants, she is more than happy to give him her phone number.
Curtis Ackie
#32. Icy glares from vampires are far icier than icy glares from people and when the vampire giving you an icy glare is originally from Iceland, you're confronted with the archetypal origin of the term, and you shouldn't be surprised if your core body temperature drops a few degrees.
Kevin Hearne
#33. A conglomerate of complicated words, they confuse, condemn and cajole, created, he is sure, for the sole purpose of fuddling the listener, which in this case is regrettably him.
Curtis Ackie
#34. You can spend all day trying to think of some universal truth to set down on paper, and some poets try that. Shakespeare knew that it's much easier to string together some words beginning with the same letter.
Mark Forsyth
#35. Soothe and sly stamina with a short sword they slice
They are beyond precise making the victim pay the price
Justin Bienvenue
#36. The clever old conniver continued to cogitate.
James D. Doss
#37. Bicycles, bullock carts, and buses that belched thick, black smoke moved in anarchic streams with the auto rickshaws and cars along the streets. Many of the shops - normally selling everything from groceries to stainless steel cookware to shoes - stood silent behind shutters and honeycomb grilles.
Ken Doyle
#38. Dear Eldritch Snitch. I slap you with the satin glove of righteous wrath! From what noxious nest of nattering nincompoopery do you release your rancorous roosters of rumor ...
James Kennedy
#40. Atticus "three kinds of cat shit, Oberon."
Oberon "and an arrogant family of squirrels.
Kevin Hearne
#42. It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire.
Gene Wolfe
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