What's the difference between alliteration and alliterative?

Alliteration


Definition:

  • (n.) The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Set in the earliest days of the caped crusader's crime-fighting career – holy alliteration, Batman!
  • (2) That tartan rug is a heather-hued heath before my hearth (alliteration too!).
  • (3) If he could get treatment for his addiction to alliteration and stop using phrases like "for you and I", this prodigiously talented "small boy of 52", as he described himself two years ago, could walk away with the Booker prize."
  • (4) There were no significant age differences as regards the relative frequency with which different phonemes were manipulated in rhyme and alliteration.
  • (5) A battery of metalinguistic tests, incorporating the production of poems, nursery rhymes, alliteration and rhyme, was designed to assess the subjects' sound-based language play.
  • (6) But to me, alliteration is the warp and weft of the poem, without which it is just so many fine threads.
  • (7) Nod to people on all points of the political spectrum … Add a soupcon of alliteration.
  • (8) Has any other Cup final team achieved a similar degree of alliteration?"
  • (9) In this study were compared the phonological awareness of 15 moderately to severely phonologically impaired and 15 phonologically normal children, matched on mental age and gender, on sensitivity to alliteration and to rhyme.
  • (10) It did still talk about social security and social insurance, but it also, unthinkingly, adopted the now well-worn alliteration of "welfare to work".
  • (11) Children with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and dyslexia (n = 82) made significantly more errors than normally reading children with ADD (n = 83) on a simple auditory test of phonological sensitivity to rhyme and alliteration (Bradley, 1984).
  • (12) A line like "and retrieves the intestines in time-honoured style" might appear not to alliterate at first glance.
  • (13) He chose the line carelessly, presumably for its alliteration, and with an utter disregard for truth and the dire consequences his distortions will have on real people, including the very ones who elected him.
  • (14) A subgroup of children with dyslexia who were sensitive to rhyme and alliteration had higher scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) Spatial factor than a dyslexic subgroup who were phonologically insensitive.
  • (15) Perhaps it is the alliteration, which has a kind of playful quality; maybe it’s because we associate barrels with beer and wine.
  • (16) There is much more stitching them together, though, than their shared activities and love of alliteration.
  • (17) In an experimental study on hypertensive and healthy subjects, the role of anxiety, sex, and disease for the response of plasma epinephrine (E) and norepinephrine (NE) to pain (venipuncture) and mental stress (word alliteration) was investigated.
  • (18) There may never be a better concise description of that evidently charmed time and place than MacDonald's wry paragraph, with its gathering rhythm and subtle alliteration: "During the academic year of 1968-69, Cambridge University felt an alien influence from beyond its sober curtain walls.
  • (19) On the subject of alliteration, it should be mentioned that within each line it is the stressed syllables which count.
  • (20) Specific analysis is focused on those stretches of speech which exhibit perseveration to the point where there is an excessive amount of alliteration and assonance.

Alliterative


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Republicans who are not totally enthusiastic about repealing Obamacare Read more “Republicans talk about they’re going to ‘repeal and replace’ – interesting alliteratively, but not realistic,” said House minority leader Nancy Pelosi of California, who led the passage of the law in 2009 and 2010.
  • (2) Thomas Lewis is alliteratively credited with devising the laddergram.
  • (3) 3.44am BST 32 mins: Altidore swivels, spins, shapes to shoot, and other alliterative moves, but his shot is blocked.
  • (4) Before it was published, they said, they'd had a brief discussion about whether "pygmy protesters" was offensive or just a bit old-fashioned, decided that they thought it was probably the latter and, having come to this conclusion, chose – reasonably, in my view – to use this striking and alliteratively appealing phrase in the headline.
  • (5) Which brings me to what it’s like being a foreigner in Brexit Britain or, to put it more accurately, if less alliteratively, Brexit England.
  • (6) Another alliterative way of summarising its formula would be: Neighbours, necrosis and news.
  • (7) A couple of years after the organic supermarket opened, I saw a property advert on the tube that had created annoying alliterative couplets out of different London place names.
  • (8) And not just to explain Emwazi’s transformation from a smiling child into the gleeful slicer of throats who has become the global, if masked, face of Islamic State, his alliterative, made-up name better known even than that of the movement’s leader.
  • (9) The coverage of Ed Miliband's lecture in memory of Hugo Young – delivered at the Guardian building on Monday evening – has focused mainly on his alliterative promise of "people-powered public services".
  • (10) Some translators, for perfectly valid reasons and with great success, have chosen not to imitate its highly alliterative form.
  • (11) While the majority of papers dreamt up alliterative but illiterate headings ( "the designer demo" , "middle-class and militant" ), one bright spark at the Sun decided to savage me for the heinous crime of being educated at Godolphin and Latymer school.
  • (12) Repeal and replace” is alliterative, after all: it sounds nice enough on an arena stage.
  • (13) It is a phrase much-loved because a) it is alliterative, and b) only vaguely understandable, the "vaguely" being an advantage, as it allows anyone to use it to make it mean whatever they want.
  • (14) We could even call this engineering, although to do so would be a disaster from the alliterative point of view.

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