Thesaurus / alliteration
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other words for alliteration
- litany
- recurrence
- reiteration
- repeat
- rhythm
- chant
- chorus
- copy
- echo
- encore
- iteration
- paraphrase
- periodicity
- perseveration
- practice
- reappearance
- recapitulation
- recital
- redundancy
- rehearsal
- relation
- renewal
- repetitiousness
- replication
- report
- reproduction
- restatement
- return
- rote
- tautology
- broken record
- ingemination
- iteracy
- iterance
- reoccurrence
- staccato
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How to use alliteration in a sentence
No attempt is made to preserve alliteration or archaic diction.
THE TRANSLATIONS OF BEOWULFCHAUNCEY BREWSTER TINKERYou are familiar with the term "alliteration," and know that it is a favourite device of cheap journalism.
THE SOUNDS OF SPOKEN ENGLISHWALTER RIPPMANNThis has the right swing, and its slightly faulty alliteration could easily be mended, yet Saint Juliana is not verse.
SELECTIONS FROM EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH 1130-1250: PART II: NOTESVARIOUSHolthausen restores alliteration by substituting colde for winter.
SELECTIONS FROM EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH 1130-1250: PART II: NOTESVARIOUSHaec frumenta legit, si comperit; ordea spernit, T. finde ge, if she find: cleche for finde would restore the alliteration.
SELECTIONS FROM EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH 1130-1250: PART II: NOTESVARIOUSIts effects are sometimes most pleasing when the alliteration turns on one or more internal syllables.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTEREvery line attains double alliteration in the first half, with one alliterating word only in the second half.
BEOWULFR. W. CHAMBERSThe Stanfield and Grieve, upon whose names the happy alliteration is made, are supposed to be celebrated English scene painters.
KATHAY: A CRUISE IN THE CHINA SEASW. HASTINGS MACAULAYOnly one further instance of the systematic employment of alliteration may here be noted in passing.
THE YOUNGER EDDASNORREWe must take exception, also, in conclusion, to the excess of alliteration.
LAY MORALSROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 18, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO ALLITERATION
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
- alliteration
- broken record
- chant
- chorus
- copy
- echo
- encore
- ingemination
- iteracy
- iterance
- iteration
- litany
- paraphrase
- periodicity
- perseveration
- practice
- reappearance
- recapitulation
- recital
- recurrence
- redundancy
- rehearsal
- reiteration
- relation
- renewal
- reoccurrence
- repeat
- repetitiousness
- replication
- report
- reproduction
- restatement
- return
- rhythm
- rote
- staccato
- tautology
- alliteration
- broken records
- chants
- choruses
- copies
- echoes
- encores
- ingeminations
- iteracies
- iterances
- iterations
- litanies
- paraphrases
- periodicities
- perseverations
- practices
- reappearances
- recapitulations
- recitals
- recurrences
- redundancies
- rehearsals
- reiterations
- relations
- renewals
- reoccurrences
- repeats
- repetitiousnesses
- replications
- reports
- reproductions
- restatements
- returns
- rhythms
- rote
- staccatos
- tautologies
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.