| Coco has alliterative and assonantal qualities that also make it memorable from an aural standpoint. |
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| The two-man chorus is lent an alliterative, Anglo-Saxon form reminiscent of Heaney's Beowulf. |
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| Hometowns are often used by sports writers in creating alliterative nicknames. |
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| In one well-turned, humorous phrase, Michael steals his equally alliterative interviewer Lou's article right out from under him. |
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| The poems are alliterative, disjunctive, unpunctuated, fabular, and also political, based as they are on maps and their borders and flags. |
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| All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader. |
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| The author roundly silenced his critics when the densely illustrated, alliterative animal alphabet book sold 1.3 million copies worldwide. |
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| As to verse and metre, modern Heathenry like its ancient counterpart has enjoyed the use of alliterative verse or stave rhyme. |
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| The attempt to place Thomas in the Welsh bardic tradition because of his alliterative style largely fails since the poet himself disputed it. |
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| Such methods went on to form the basis of the first written English poetry, Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. |
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| Actually, this is a little unfair on Portugal, which Johnson may have included for alliterative reasons. |
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| Both of these poems contain alliterative sequences of unrelated words. |
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| A few passages of Irish heroic poetry that survive from the prehistoric period employ an alliterative line very much like the one used by Old English poets. |
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| If Mr Bush stands for anything it is for this alliterative slogan the Republican answer to the Clintonian New Democrats. |
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| David Myers' novel The Bohemian Bourgeois is the true inheritor of that line, his protagonist's name appropriately alliterative, his behaviour equally roguish. |
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| The bank's definition of extreme poverty is stark, simple and even alliterative. |
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| I asked them to write two sentences of alliterative art criticism. |
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| He chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for quick and thereby avoided naming this site quick-web. |
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| Shelves are stocked with olive oils, peppers, pasta, pastries and other alliterative aliment. |
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| The term alliterative revival should not be taken to imply a return to the principles of classical Old English versification. |
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| From Caerphilly to Kia-ora, from Hovis to haddock and from Bovril to bacon sandwiches, it's an alliterative heaven! |
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| It is alliterative, extending to almost 1,000 lines imitating the Old English Beowulf metre in Modern English. |
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| It is also one of the oldest surviving samples of Germanic alliterative verse. |
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| Hildebrandslied, English Song of Hildebrand, Old High German alliterative heroic poem on the fatalistic theme of a duel of honour between a father and a son. |
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| Since he first exploded in the charts with Bouge de là, Solaar has carved out his own niche on the French music scene with his alliterative juggling and clever wordplay. |
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| His system of alliterative verse is based on accent, alliteration, the quantity of vowels, and patterns of syllabic accentuation. |
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| Old English poetry, like other Old Germanic alliterative verse, is also commonly marked by the caesura or pause. |
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| They are evocative poetic descriptions of everyday things, often created to fill the alliterative requirements of the metre. |
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| It is a narrative poem composed in alliterative verse and is modelled after the Old Norse poetry of the Elder Edda. |
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| It is one of the few locations mentioned by name in the anonymous medieval alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. |
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| Some of those contain allusions to Norse mythology and even short poems in alliterative verse. |
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| Old English, German and Norse poems were written in alliterative verse, usually without rhyme. |
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| A poetic version of the Lord's Prayer in the form of the traditional Germanic alliterative verse is given in Old Saxon below as it appears in the Heliand. |
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| The Thorvaldsen museum also has an alliterative poem, Thunravalds Sunau, from 1841 by Massmann, the first publisher of the Skeireins, written in the Gothic language. |
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| Especially recommended for parents to read aloud with children, as some of the alliterative verses are virtual tongue-twisters in their own right. |
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| Besides the general echoic effect by which it links words, alliterative consonance in Macbeth seems to create important links in meaning, symbolism, and imagery. |
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| Alliterative meter also seems to predominate in the very earliest texts from the third western branch of Indo-European, Italic. |
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