(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.
Rhyme
Definition:
(n.) An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.
(n.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.
(n.) Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
(n.) A word answering in sound to another word.
(n.) To make rhymes, or verses.
(n.) To accord in rhyme or sound.
(v. t.) To put into rhyme.
(v. t.) To influence by rhyme.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no rhyme or reason to the prices he wanted to pay.
(2) Before the season, each subject performed an exercise test, and the maximal capacity of oxygen uptake was estimated according to Astrand and Rhyming.
(3) Right-handed undergraduates concurrently performed two tasks: a lateralized semantic or rhyme task and a verbal memory task.
(4) Following a string of controversies about offensive remarks, Clarkson was put on final warning by the BBC in May, after unbroadcast Top Gear footage of him mumbling the N-word during the rhyme “Eeny, meeny, miny moe” was leaked.
(5) Retarded readers were poorer than both control groups in consonant deletion, while there was no difference between the groups on a rhyme-judgement task and a syllabic-vowel-reproduction task.
(6) In the footage, published on the newspaper's website , Clarkson appears to recite the beginning of the children's nursery rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe..." before appearing to mumble: "Catch a nigger by his toe."
(7) In the unaired version – which was later passed to the Mirror – the presenter then appears to recite the children's counting rhyme and use the N-word under his breath before pointing at the Toyota and shrugging: "Toyota it is."
(8) Visually similar letter pairs facilitated responses to rhyming pairs and inhibited responses to nonrhyming pairs.
(9) There were no significant effects of rhyme on performance at either age.
(10) The Fairbanks Rhyme Test was filtered into two bands-240-480 Hz (low band) and 1020-2040 Hz (high band).
(11) The dichotic rhyme task's normative data results and sensitivity to lack of callosal transmission make it worthy of further clinical and basic research.
(12) In the third experiment, subjects learned pairs in which the stimuli were single letters; then subjects transferred to a list in which either rhyming or unrelated stimuli began with the same letters.
(13) But non-gaming children’s channels are also popular: the biggest channel on YouTube in October was toy-unboxing channel DC Toys Collector , with nursery-rhyme channel Little Baby Bum also in the top five on YouTube that month.
(14) Young adults recalled more base-words, associates, and rhymes than elderly subjects on immediate free and cued tests and on an uncued test one week later.
(15) The minister grew up in South Carolina, the son of a professional boxer, and said Ali had always inspired him – especially his penchant for rhythm and rhyme.
(16) In Experiment 1, which used content words as stimuli, the deep dyslexic, like normal subjects, showed faster reaction times on trials with rhyming, similarly spelled stimuli (e.g.
(17) The Google Music offering comes with exclusive content from the Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Busta Rhymes, Shakira, Pearl Jam and the Dave Matthews Band.
(18) In contrast, the results of Experiments 1-4 indicate that rhyme-related concepts are encoded and interfere with memory for the presented target only when subjects explicitly attend to the rhyme dimension.
(19) The effects of cue-load and cue-type (category and rhyming) on the cued recall of word lists were examined in amnesic and control subjects under conditions where contextual information was either important or superfluous to recall.
(20) In this study, segmental lengthening in the vicinity of prosodic boundaries is examined and found to be restricted to the rhyme of the syllable preceding the boundary.