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Definition of alliterative in English: alliterativeadjective əˈlɪt(ə)rətɪv Relating to or marked by alliteration. （与）头韵（有关）的 alliterative assonance such as ‘sails of silver’ Example sentencesExamples - The stately and complex narrative is composed in the alliterative metre common to most early Germanic poetry, and is enhanced by rich description, decorous speeches, and moral reflection.
- David Myers' novel The Bohemian Bourgeois is the true inheritor of that line, his protagonist's name appropriately alliterative, his behaviour equally roguish.
- Gawain is written in a newer form for the time, known as the ‘bob and wheel,’ in which each strophe of verse ends with a five line rhymed tag, which is also alliterative in its structure.
- The two-man chorus is lent an alliterative, Anglo-Saxon form reminiscent of Heaney's Beowulf.
- In the course of an hour this guy must have spoken 42,000 words, many thousand being Shakespeare quotes and alliterative adjectives describing his philosophy, his past as an actor and his experiences as a WWII British navy man.
- Hometowns are often used by sports writers in creating alliterative nicknames.
- A magnificent performer on the page, she can flip, mid-paragraph, into alliterative mode to underline a point: ‘The world is flux, flow and fruitfully fermenting doubt.’
- The poems are alliterative, disjunctive, unpunctuated, fabular, and also political, based as they are on maps and their borders and flags.
- All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader.
- White's lyricism, sometimes reminiscent of Jean Toomer's sentence fragments and poetic repetition, and her metaphorical and alliterative use of language make her fiction almost indistinguishable from her poetry.
- The attempt to place Thomas in the Welsh bardic tradition because of his alliterative style largely fails since the poet himself disputed it.
- Each new translation of Gawain's travails places the translator in conflict with the original text - how to recreate the narrative's pace, the alliterative swatches of language, the tale's uncanny aura?
- Spenser begins the stanza with an alliterative play upon ‘joyous’ and ‘just’ which lightens the atmosphere after the sober and tense portrayal of the knight's penance, while emphasising the worth of Charissa's lesson.
- Such methods went on to form the basis of the first written English poetry, Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.
- 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.
- In the Heliand, a ninth-century Old Saxon alliterative verse retelling of the gospel, Christ teaches his disciples the secret runes that God spoke in the beginning when he called the world into being.
- Southwell appears to have chosen a vernacular, alliterative style not only as a repudiation of contemporary poetic practice but also because such a style makes a statement about continuity and patriotism.
- Nelson and Napoleon were celebrated - and appropriately alliterative - antagonists, though they never confronted each other directly in battle.
- Both of these poems contain alliterative sequences of unrelated words.
- Much of this poetry fell squarely in the northern European tradition, and the literary revival of the north-west and the Midlands in the fourteenth century was mainly of alliterative, unrhymed verse.
Derivativesadverb As Gunderson alliteratively put it, there were other better explanations of a more pronounced class identification in this period than ‘Nash's cumbersome contrivance of class consciousness arising in poverty.’ Example sentencesExamples - Do they manage to translate the names of the Endless into other languages alliteratively?
- Repeating the word ‘field’ in the second clause, however, Warner balances it with form, alliteratively cinching together the natural ‘field’ with its scientific meanings.
- ‘The prejudicial effect would far outweigh the probative value,’ he added alliteratively.
- I myself was named alliteratively because my father always wanted to be able to step outside on a warm summer night and holler through cupped hands, ‘Come hither Heather Hamilton.’
Definition of alliterative in US English: alliterativeadjective Relating to or marked by alliteration. （与）头韵（有关）的 alliterative assonance such as “sails of silver” Example sentencesExamples - All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader.
- Southwell appears to have chosen a vernacular, alliterative style not only as a repudiation of contemporary poetic practice but also because such a style makes a statement about continuity and patriotism.
- Each new translation of Gawain's travails places the translator in conflict with the original text - how to recreate the narrative's pace, the alliterative swatches of language, the tale's uncanny aura?
- White's lyricism, sometimes reminiscent of Jean Toomer's sentence fragments and poetic repetition, and her metaphorical and alliterative use of language make her fiction almost indistinguishable from her poetry.
- The poems are alliterative, disjunctive, unpunctuated, fabular, and also political, based as they are on maps and their borders and flags.
- David Myers' novel The Bohemian Bourgeois is the true inheritor of that line, his protagonist's name appropriately alliterative, his behaviour equally roguish.
- In the Heliand, a ninth-century Old Saxon alliterative verse retelling of the gospel, Christ teaches his disciples the secret runes that God spoke in the beginning when he called the world into being.
- 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.
- Such methods went on to form the basis of the first written English poetry, Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.
- The two-man chorus is lent an alliterative, Anglo-Saxon form reminiscent of Heaney's Beowulf.
- Much of this poetry fell squarely in the northern European tradition, and the literary revival of the north-west and the Midlands in the fourteenth century was mainly of alliterative, unrhymed verse.
- Nelson and Napoleon were celebrated - and appropriately alliterative - antagonists, though they never confronted each other directly in battle.
- Hometowns are often used by sports writers in creating alliterative nicknames.
- Gawain is written in a newer form for the time, known as the ‘bob and wheel,’ in which each strophe of verse ends with a five line rhymed tag, which is also alliterative in its structure.
- Spenser begins the stanza with an alliterative play upon ‘joyous’ and ‘just’ which lightens the atmosphere after the sober and tense portrayal of the knight's penance, while emphasising the worth of Charissa's lesson.
- In the course of an hour this guy must have spoken 42,000 words, many thousand being Shakespeare quotes and alliterative adjectives describing his philosophy, his past as an actor and his experiences as a WWII British navy man.
- The attempt to place Thomas in the Welsh bardic tradition because of his alliterative style largely fails since the poet himself disputed it.
- Both of these poems contain alliterative sequences of unrelated words.
- The stately and complex narrative is composed in the alliterative metre common to most early Germanic poetry, and is enhanced by rich description, decorous speeches, and moral reflection.
- A magnificent performer on the page, she can flip, mid-paragraph, into alliterative mode to underline a point: ‘The world is flux, flow and fruitfully fermenting doubt.’
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