Definitionadj. having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable
Last update: August 22, 2015
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Another alliterative poem in the northern dialect, of 15th-century origin, is based on the Historia de proeliis, and was edited by Skeat for the E.E.T.S. [Please select]
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He must have thought himself vastly clever with his alliterative epigram. [Please select]
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Such was the unsympathetic, alliterative heading of the malicious statement which appeared in an opposition organ. [Please select]
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Dear Judy and Jervis: Brother Jimmie (we are very alliterative.) [Please select]
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Let your alliterative motto be: _With the glass, not the gun_. [Please select]
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The entire poem is in strongly accented, alliterative lines, something like Beowulf, and its immense popularity shows that the common people still cherished this easily memorized form of Saxon poetry. [Please select]
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