alliterational‧lit‧er‧a‧tion /əˌlɪtəˈreɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] 
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Word OriginWORD ORIGINalliteration
ExamplesOrigin:
1600-1700 Latin litera ‘letter’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Thesaurus- And children love poetic rhythms, alliteration, nonsense mutations.
- Are there any phonological patterns of rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc?
- As the Joyce example shows, this foregrounding is not limited to the more obvious poetic devices, such as metaphor and alliteration.
- For alliteration it ought to be Pablo or Picauo.
- So Chelsea had more reason than alliteration to fear a third successive failure to reach the third round.
- The bombast, the alliteration, the pseudo-erudition that some people back then would take for the real thing.
- The parallelisms are reinforced by frequent alliteration, indicated by italics.
THESAURUStechniques used in language► metaphor
the use of several words together that begin with the same sound or letter in order to make a special effect, especially in poetry a way of describing something by referring to it as something different and suggesting that it has similar qualities to that thing: · The beehive is a metaphor for human society.
► simile an expression that describes something by comparing it with something else, using the words as or like, for example ‘as white as snow’: · The poet uses the simile ‘soft like clay’.
► irony the use of words that are the opposite of what you really mean, often in order to be amusing: · ‘I’m so happy to hear that,’ he said, with more than a trace of irony in his voice.
► bathos a sudden change from a subject that is beautiful, moral, or serious to something that is ordinary, silly, or not important: · The play is too sentimental and full of bathos.
► hyperbole a way of describing something by saying that it is much bigger, smaller, worse etc than it actually is – used especially to excite people’s feelings: · In his speeches, he used a lot of hyperbole.· journalistic hyperbole
► alliteration the use of several words together that all begin with the same sound, in order to make a special effect, especially in poetry: · the alliteration of the ‘s’ sound in ‘sweet birds sang softly’
► imagery the use of words to describe ideas or actions in a way that makes the reader connect the ideas with pictures in their mind: · the use of water imagery in Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’· She uses the imagery of a bird’s song to represent eternal hope.
► rhetorical question a question that you ask as a way of making a statement, without expecting an answer: · When he said ‘how can these attitudes still exist in a civilized society?’, he was asking a rhetorical question.
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