Alliteration Quotes

• Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

  Charles Churchill

  Writing, Aids

  Charles Churchill (1763). “The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral”, p.5

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• A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

  Albert Brooks

  Powerful, Anchors, Anxious

  "Broadcast News", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Midnight, Literature, Weak

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

  Lewis Carroll

  Beast, Motive, Humans

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• Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mind, Assonance, Corridors

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Leaving, Novelists, Use

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

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• [The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Republican, Come Up

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• 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.

  Ben Gibbard

  Girlfriend, Wife, Together

  "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Type, Tempted, Meaningless

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• Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Children, Wall, Kids

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• Alliteration seems to offend people.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Seems

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.360, Bantam

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• In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  School, Too Much, Rhythm

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• No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration." I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.

  Kevin Hearne

  Two, Worry, Bonus

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.911, Del Rey

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• I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics

  Tituss Burgess

  Fun, Magic, Wish

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

  Truman Capote

  Vices, Attention, Half

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.7, Vintage

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• [the Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration. But that's all it has going for it because they don't have a replacement. What they have put forth and outlined will cost more to consumers. It will cover fewer people. It will give tax breaks to the wealthiest people.

  Nancy Pelosi

  People, Giving, Going For It

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.

  James Whistler

  Flower, Artist, Men

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Echoes, Lines, Favors

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

  Amy Lowell

  Use, Cadence, Kind

  "Can Grande's Castle". Book by Amy Lowell, 1921.

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• There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.

  Moira J. Moore

  Sentences, Happenings

  Moira J. Moore (2006). “The Hero Strikes Back”, p.64, Penguin

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• Jack furiously chopped vegetables. "Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm...Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack.

  Kiersten White

  Moving, Hero, Doors

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• Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited.

  Frederick Lenz

  Space, Variables, Steps

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