alliteration
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Alliteration and memorable one liners roll off him, like when he told NBC host Mike Tirico that skater Ilia Malinin’s scores were “off the FM dial.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
The Annual Achievement in Alliteration Award goes to the headline, “Bailey’s breakout barrage bouys Bruins in comeback.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023
Alliteration was presumably the answer wanted, but I’m not sure I knew that.
From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2022
Alliteration: literary device consisting of repetition of initial consonant sounds.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Alliteration appears sporadically in the verse of all literary languages, but as a means for the coördination of verse it is characteristic of the primitive Germanic tongues.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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