alliteration
Performer brings his show to Delmar-Harvard and connects with the kids
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Oct 08 6:48 PM Josh Ritter brings his show to class and connects with the kids.
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A head start on reading
Pensacola News Journal - Oct 05 10:57 PM Charles Bullard reads to Aaliyah Dickson and her 4-year-old classmates on Thursday at the Head Start off North C Street during National Head Start Awareness Month.
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One Team Helping Those in Need Around the SF Bay Area
RedNova - Oct 09 12:18 PM SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Every day in America, 36.3 million people struggle to find a basic meal. This lack of nutrition causes harm to the body's physical health and hinders the ability to learn.
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A Look at Heavy Call Activity on eBay (EBAY)
Schaeffers Research - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago A daily feature available on SchaeffersResearch.com is "Options Update." Every day, we'll give a brief market overview and focus on one stock that is the center of some heavy option trading...( Read More )
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Northwest will cut nonstop flights to Las Vegas
The Des Moines Register - Oct 06 11:12 AM Northwest Airlines will halt its non-stop flights between Des Moines and Las Vegas as competitor Allegiant Air steps up its service between the...
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Father defends his home, family from alligator in backyard
The Herald-Tribune - 1 hour, 7 minutes ago SARASOTA COUNTY -- Angel Elicerio had only seen alligators on TV before moving to Florida six months ago. This week, he had a live encounter with one in his backyard -- a few feet from his 6-year-old son.
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Children's Books
New York Times - Oct 06 11:59 PM 1. IS THERE REALLY A HUMAN RACE?, by Jamie Lee Curtis br / 2. MOMMY?, by Maurice Sendak br / 3. SHEETZUCACAPOOPOO, by Joy Behar br / 4. THE KISSING HAND, by Audrey Penn br / 5. FANCY NANCY, by Jane O?Connor
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Alta Partners Promotes Alison de Bord to Director
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - 2 hours, 7 minutes ago SAN FRANCISCO----Alta Partners, a life sciences venture capital firm based in San Francisco, today announced that Alison de Bord has been promoted to Director. Alison joins Alta's other six Directors responsible for investing Alta Partners VIII.
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Sally Anne memorial defaced
icCroydon - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago A VANDAL has defaced the plaque placed in memory of stabbed model Sally Anne Bowman. The incident has "shocked and disgusted" Sally Anne's grieving mum Linda, who unveiled the memorial in South Croydon only last week.
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5 Toledo-area actors under age 30 are among new generation of hopefuls in Hollywood
The Toledo Blade - Oct 02 3:38 AM Adrianne Palicki's acting career is the kind of thing you see, well, in the...
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Annual get-together of Allman Brothers fans wraps up
Macon Telegraph - Oct 09 12:13 AM Clouds made for an overcast Sunday, but for fans of The Allman Brothers Band, it was nothing but blue skies.
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Exercise Alone Won't Prevent Childhood Obesity
HealthDay via Yahoo! News - Oct 05 4:02 PM THURSDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Physically active preschoolers are on to a good thing, but exercise alone won't keep obesity at bay as they get older, British researchers report.
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The ABCs of after-school snacks
Rapid City Journal - Oct 08 10:37 PM Create some back-to-school excitement with these after-school snacks that are sure to please hungry students from kindergarten to college. Alphabet Cookies are a fun treat for little scholars just learning their ABCs.
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Celebrating 'The Salsa King'
Pacific Daily News - Oct 05 10:02 AM H e lived with passion, tragedy and poetry, and died before he was fully appreciated, but fans of salsa music will be fascinated by a birthday celebration of Hector Lavoe tomorrow at the Fishbowl.
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Great Deals for the October Holidays at Alton Towers
RedNova - Oct 07 1:18 AM TAKE the kids to Alton Towers during the October week and save a bundle - thanks to the Daily Record. We've arranged a great Buy One Get One Free ticket deal, which will save you up to pounds 29.50 - PLUS a great offer at Alton Towers' Splash Landings Hotel.
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1979 Ford Granada Ghia from North America
Carsurvey.org - Oct 07 5:05 PM What things have gone wrong with the car? The car required a complete exhaust system, complete brake system rebuild including all hydraulic components, power steering pressure hose, radiator, water pump, belts, hoses, major tune up and alternator replacement.
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Search uncovers hazards at water plant
Sun-Sentinel - Oct 08 12:10 AM HILLSBORO BEACH · Opened cans of oil. Buckets of used paint. A paddleboat, aluminum boat and sailboat without a mast.
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College Football Fans Select Georgia Tech Wide Receiver Calvin Johnson as the Week Five Cingular All-America Player of
SYS-CON Media - Oct 05 11:02 PM Georgia Tech wide receiver Calvin Johnson sparked a convincing win for the Yellow Jackets at Virginia Tech last weekend, and the fans have rewarded him for his outstanding play. The votes have been counted and Johnson has been selected as the week five Cingular All-America Player of the Week, the only major college football award chosen exclusively by college football fans.
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Classic Hollywood ending
The Star-Ledger - Oct 07 11:43 PM LOS ANGELES -- Ah, it was a glorious day in Hollywood. The sun was shining. The sky was blue -- Dodgers blue or Mets blue, take your pick. The beer was flowing. There was a rumor Alyssa Milano was in the house. And the Yankees had been eliminated from the postseason by the Detroit Tigers.
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Around Campus: Stangel steps up for Euts
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago Former Roncalli High School volleyball standout Alyssa Stangel, just likes being in the middle of things.
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A shot, then it was 'real quiet'
Rocky Mountain News - 2 hours, 27 minutes ago Amanda Jean Duran pounded on a neighbor's door Wednesday night screaming, "Somebody help me, God help me," before a man shot her in the head with a sawed-off shotgun.
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The Girls : Vivid and Zesty: Old-School Feminist Emancipation
The Village Voice - Oct 06 4:53 PM Old-school feminist emancipation from Swedish-star -turned–New Waver Mai Zetterling. Three actresses (Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, and Gunnel Lindblom) set out on a theater tour performing Aristophanes' Lysistrata and come to realize that the ancient women- halting-war-by- withholding-sex comedy isn't all that farcical and speaks sharply to modern times. In 1968, Vietnam never has to be
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Nickelodeon's 'Shriekin' Weekend' Creaks Open the Lid on Eerie Premieres of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide,
Elite TV - Oct 05 9:18 AM Nickelodeon's "Shriekin' Weekend" scares up a monstrous slate of Halloween specials, Friday-Sunday, October 27- 29 -- topped by three chill-filled premieres -- and ushers in a Halloween Day non-stop marathon for kids from tots to tweens.
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Singer songwriter Pete Murray weds
AAP via Yahoo!7 News - Oct 07 5:25 AM Singer-songwriter Pete Murray has traded his rock uniform of jeans and a T-shirt for a crisp black suit to wed long-time sweetheart Amanda Coutts.
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Amazing Race Results – Tom & Terry Eliminated
Reality TV Magazine - Oct 08 6:21 PM For the fourth leg of the Amazing Race 10, teams travel by taxi to Hanoi. In Hanoi, teams must find Ly Thai To Gardens and listen for their next clue. At the Ly Thai To Gardens, a voice from a...
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Celebrating Five Years
WNYC New York Public Radio - Sep 30 9:25 PM You won't want to miss this 2-hour special on the power of music with remarkable stories told to host Gilbert Kaplan by nearly 40 high-profile guests including from Government: Condoleezza Rice, Jimmy Carter, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Hollywood: Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Mike Nichols, Patrick Stewart; Media: the late Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw; Museums: Philippe de Montebello
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Amish show true grace in shooting tragedy
The Cincinnati Enquirer - 2 hours, 28 minutes ago The Amish people are truly a group of amazing grace. I don't say that in a religious sense. I say it because they personify the meaning of those of those words. They are amazing in the courage, strength and grace they have shown in the aftermath of a brutal horror in the killing of their children by a maniacal madman. It seems to me that organized religion could learn something from them.
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Assistant DA presents evidence in arson case
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Oct 07 11:16 PM Assistant District Attorney Jeff Cheney wove a complex web of circumstantial evidence in District Court Thursday in an attempt to link accused arsonist Robin Jay Clifton to a series of devastating fires.
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She encouraged women to enter the wild blue
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Oct 07 8:09 PM "Happy landings to you, Amelia Earhart, Farewell, first lady of the air." So ends the chorus of "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight" by Red River Dave McEnery, which, incidentally, is regarded as the first song ever performed on commercial television -- at the 1939 World's Fair. The song commemorates Earhart's disappearance on July 2, 1937, over the Pacific Ocean while trying to fly around the world.
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Historic, restored bed-and-breakfast in Amelia is for sale for $1.5 million
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Oct 05 6:12 AM Pigeons had taken over the house. All the plaster and lath were missing. "It was pretty scary," said Kathleen Hadfield, who along with her husband, Gary, transformed this tattered house on a hill in Amelia County into a historic landmark.
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America's Nobel minds
USA Today - Oct 09 8:03 PM Americans are rightfully concerned about their educational system. In test after test, the nation's 12th-graders rank behind those in other countries. Thinkers such as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates have argued convincingly that the entire economy is at risk if American schools don't get better fast.
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Spanish Civil War Volunteers Revisit Battlegrounds
NPR - Oct 08 4:41 PM Five aging American veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades are expected at a reunion of the International Brigades who fought in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. They will revisit the battlegrounds where they made their ill-fated stand against Fascism. Thousands of foreign volunteers -- or brigadistas -- fought in the civil war, a conflict that presaged the great battles of the 20th century.
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Easy Rider - Richard revs up for American Heat motorcycle weekend
Desert Sun - Oct 09 3:59 AM American Heat motorcycle weekend returns to town Oct. 6-8. Thousands of bikers will roar down Palm Springs roads and meet at the Spa Casino for a weekend of bike shows, shopping, bike-watching an riding.
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American follows dad as Nobel laureate
The Columbus Dispatch - Oct 08 6:47 AM NEW YORK — Nearly a halfcentury after his father was awarded a Nobel Prize, a Stanford University professor won his own yesterday for groundbreaking research into how cells read their genes, fundamental work that could help lead to new therapies.
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What's On
Daily Northwestern - Oct 09 12:02 AM NBC's sci-fi bid this fall to match the new "Jericho" and "Day Break" is "Heroes," where the extraordinary happens to the ordinary. The show follows 10 seemingly unconnected people as they slowly realize they can do what others only dream.
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Alliteration is a stylistic device, or literary technique, in which successive words (more strictly, stressed syllables) begin with the same consonant sound or letter. Alliteration is a frequent tool in poetry but it is also common in prose, particularly to highlight short phrases. Especially in poetry, it contributes to euphony of the passage, lending it a musical air. It may add a humorous effect. Related to alliteration are assonance, the repetition of vowel sounds, and consonance, the repetition of consonant sounds.
Alliterative verse in one form or another is shared by all of the Germanic languages. In the English language, alliteration occurs in Old English poetry, of which it was a central component. In the Romantic era, it was once more given attention: the Romantics were generally interested in making poetry more musical, and in the ancient heritage of their native languages. Richard Wagner, for instance, used alliteration extensively in his operatic texts. (cf. Stabreim)
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Contents
- 1 Examples
- 2 See also
- 3 External links
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Examples
Examples of alliteration include well-known tongue-twisters such as "Round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran" and "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
Examples of consonance include "Sparkling...Flavorful...Miller High Life" (advertising slogan for Miller beer).
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Common examples
Like rhyme, alliteration is a great help to memory: it is 'catchy', and frequently used in news headlines, corporate names, literary titles, advertising, buzzwords, and nursery rhymes.
- baby boom
- back to basics
- Billy Bob
- balance the books
- Beavis and Butt-Head
- Big Bang
- Big Ben
- boom or bust
- Clyde Cook
- Coca-Cola
- Curry Castle, Curry Cottage, and Curry Condo
- do or die
- final four
- green as grass
- hale and hearty
- kill the king
- John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith
- Jenna Jameson
- live the life
- Making magic
- March Madness
- Mathematical Meandering
- McDonald's Massacre
- McMurder
- Methuselah Mouse
- Mickey Mouse
- Mickey Mantle
- Monday morning
- the more the merrier
- nattering nabobs of negativism
- pay the price
- peer-to-peer
- Political Policy
- Pontiac Pursuit
- poor but proud
- Sesame Street
- sink or swim
- Suffering Succotash
- Super Sonic
- Surround Sound
- sweet sixteen
- it takes two to Tango
- Tiny Tim
- Take two
- Tribulation Tech
- watchful waiting
At least two notable computer games are named with alliteration:
- Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
- Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
The Leisure Suit Larry (and other) games often feature alliteration for humorous names of fictional companies, magic spells etc.
Occasionally parents and authors use alliteration in the naming of their children and characters:
- Bilbo Baggins
- Bugs Bunny
- Daffy Duck
- Daisy Duck
- Donald Duck
- King Kong
- Larry Laffer
- Marvin the Martian
- Mickey Mouse
- Minnie Mouse
- Porky Pig
- Woody Woodpecker
It is also common in the naming of many comic book characters:
- Clark Kent
- Lois Lane
- Lana Lang
- Lex Luthor
- Lionel Luthor
- Peter Parker
- Scott Summers
- Warren Worthington III
- Betsy Braddock
- Matthew Michael Murdock
- Reed Richards
- J. Jonah Jameson
- Susan Storm
- Bruce Banner
- Wade Wilson
Stan Lee, co-creator of many comic book super-heroes, has stated that he named many of his characters using alliteration as a mnemonic device as he is creator of many, and often forgets easily.
The 2005 film V for Vendetta depicts the protagonist V introducing himself to Evey Hammond with the following alliterative line:
- Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and voracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so allow me to simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you, and you may call me V.
See also
- alliterative verse
- Figure of speech
- Rhetoric
- Consonance
- Assonance
- Rhyming
- Cynghanedd
- baby talk
External links
- Links on alliteration from the Open Directory Project
- http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/alliteration.html
- Alliteration as a figure of speech
- Audio illustrations of alliteration as figure of speech
- http://www.doriebooks.com alliterated children's book with lesson plan on writing with alliteration
Categories: Poetic form | Figures of speech | Rhetoric
Performer brings his show to Delmar-Harvard and connects with the kids
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Oct 08 6:48 PM Josh Ritter brings his show to class and connects with the kids.
Bike for Books mountain bike tour to benefit North Conway Public Library
The Conway Daily Sun - Oct 06 1:19 AM — NORTH CONWAY — Time to pedal for pages, spin the wheels for words, loops for literacy. OK, enough alliteration, it's time for the annual Bike for Books fundraiser.
Unfortunately, Lemony's events come to an end
Daily Southtown - Oct 08 2:26 AM Friday the 13th, the high holiday of misfortune, will be a lucky day for booksellers this year. Lemony Snicket's 13th and final volume in his "A Series of Unfortunate Events" series -- "The End" -- will hit the shelves that day.
The End of unfortunate events Lemony Snicket concludes children's series
The Herald News - Oct 08 2:19 AM Friday the 13th, the high holiday of misfortune, will be a lucky day for booksellers as Lemony Snicket's 13th and final volume in his A Series of Unfortunate Events -- "The End" -- hits the shelves, or more likely, gets stacked skyward close to cash registers like Jenga piles ready to tumble from quick consumption by kid consumers and their adult guardians.
The Hunger Artists
New York Times - Oct 06 9:23 PM David Kamp?s lively new book chronicles the postwar transformation of American gastronomy.
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