(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.
Resonance
Definition:
(n.) The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.
(n.) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(2) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
(3) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(4) Electron spin resonance studies indicate the formation of two vanadyl complexes that are 1:1 in vanadyl and deferoxamine, but have two or three bound hydroxamate groups.
(5) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
(6) The resonance Raman spectra of oxy and deoxy cobalt-substituted hemoglobin (CoHb) are reported.
(7) In the same buffer a resonance marked L by Russu et al.
(8) An innovative magnetic resonance imaging technique was applied to the measurement of blood flow in the abdominal aorta.
(9) Sequelae of chemo- and radiotherapy were only depicted by magnetic resonance imaging.
(10) The present results using approximately 12% hemoglobin concentration in 0.1 M Bistris buffer at pD 7 and 27 degrees C with and without organic phosphate show that there is no significant line broadening on oxygenation (from 0 to 50% saturation) to affect the determination of the intensities or areas of these resonances.
(11) The linewidths of the methionine Cepsilon resonances are narrowed by increasing temperature according to an Arrhenius energy of activation of nearly 3 kcal.
(12) Magnetic resonance imaging of the spinal cord clearly demonstrated the entire lesion.
(13) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(14) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(15) In addition, a 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique was applied to investigate the in vivo energy metabolism of the graft.
(16) Line broadening detected in several of the high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectra was attributed to cis-trans isomerization.
(17) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(18) Some additional amino proton resonances have also been assigned.
(19) The basic principle of the resonant tool, its adaptation for surgery, the experimental results of its use in animals, and clinical experience are reported.
(20) In this critical review of human in vivo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the questions of which chemical species can be detected and with what sensitivity, their biochemical significance, and their potential clinical value are addressed.