Name: The pleasure of poetic...
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Description: "So long lives this and this gives life to thee." In fact, this type of specific consonance, which occurs at the beginning of words may be familiar to you already. It's called alliteration, or front rhyme. Great examples include tongue twisters.

Ben Gibbard

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.

American Musician

Neil Morrissey

We get the papers: I prefer broadsheets because I had the fear of God put into me by the tabloids and, though I'm very much over it, I still don't really like to read them. It's a destructive vernacular that makes me angry and scared, and it is all sensationalist onomatopoeia and alliteration.

English Actor

Rick Moranis

Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it reminded us citizens that our domain of orderly domesticity was graced by the dominant power of our 'Dominus.

Canadian Actor

Margaret Atwood

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

Canadian Novelist

Tom Green

I've always really enjoyed sounds and alliteration and funny words and funny melodies.

Canadian Comedian

Alliteration can set a specific tone or mood in writing, making it more memorable.

Creating Mood

Used skillfully, alliteration enhances the rhythm and flow of sentences for better readability.

Enhancing Flow

Alliteration grabs attention, making phrases more catchy in marketing or speech.

Attention Grabber

 "So long lives this and this gives life to thee." In fact, this type of specific consonance, which occurs at the beginning of words may be familiar to you already. It's called alliteration, or front rhyme. Great examples include tongue twisters.

The pleasure of poetic...

 I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris. Pittsburgh? Now what was upsetting about that, and that alliteration, was the stereotype of our past.

‘Paris to Pittsburgh’ -...

 helps the alliteration to jump right out. Another a little bit more mathematical. And I wonder if some of you will notice the construction of the sentence

Alliteration

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