Talk:Alliteration

==Why(did)does Alliteration redirect here?==This page [was] basically useless for someone wanting to know about the poetic structure "alliteration". I mean really who would ever want to know that? I'll tell you who YOU!! Because your looking this up. If i were you I would get up from your seat right now and leave. Actually don't even come back to this website ever because all of the articles are not even true you would be better off if you went to a print encyclopedia!!

I modified the beginning of this article, because it didn't define alliteration at all (and this was the article that I was redirected to when I searched for alliteration).

It made no sense, When I first came to this page, the first two words were "Alliterative verse" rather than alliteration. From there, it just went downhill. Alliteration itself as a structuring device was not actually talked about a whole lot.

The remainder of the article needs to be modified slightly and definitely expanded on. I've only temporarily solved the problem by actually defining alliteration in the first two lines. The majority of the rest is basically just listing, and no real factual information on the topic of alliteration itself. In fact, a lot of it is still related to alliterative verse (especially in the first paragraph).

My addition:

Alliteration is a poetic structuring device characterized by the reiteration of the initial consonant at the beginning of two consecutive or slightly separated words. Here's a good example of a page that talks about Alliteration:

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/alliteration.html 76.185.19.196 17:59, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Some of the article does make sense! Thanks for the example. ↑

lol. diz is shit man

"peck"

Should "a peck of pickled peppers be changed to "a pack of pickled peppers"? kazi No, see peck.

Woody Woodpecker

After the list of common examples, someone has written: Occasionally parents and authors use alliteration in the naming of their children and characters, and followed it with Woody Woodpecker.

However, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Super Sonic were included in the large list. Is there any reason for this?

Deliberate?

Was the alliteration in the first line of the article intentional?

"...stylistic device, or literary technique, in which successive words (more strictly, stressed syllables) begin with the same consonant sound or letter."

--> No, this is "consonance" (see note below) 71.169.154.5 16:54, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Penelope Pitstop

Mention her, from Speed Racer cartoon show.

[HeyGeo] ... actually Penelope Pitstop was a character in the 1969 Wacky Racers cartoon, produced by Hanna-Barbera and a staple of kids Saturday Morning TV in the early 70's .

Alliterative

There is a redirection to Alliteration from Alliterative. May I therefore suggest that this page covers not only grammatical alliteration, but alliterative architecture, design, etc.

Ubuntu

versions of the Linux distro Ubuntu are all given alliterative names - Dapper Drake, Hoary Hedgehog, Breezy Badger. There didn't seem to be a good place to put this, and it didn't seem worthy of a section on its own. Jeremymiles 20:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

• Don't forget Feisty Fawn (= —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.185.19.196 (talk) 08:13, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Ford cars

I read somewhere (on Wikipedia?) that Ford were changing their model names so that they all began with F. Ford Focus, Five Hundred, Fiesta, etc.

But I don't know how true it is. Jeremymiles 20:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Alliteration vs Repetition

What is it called when you reiterate a vowel instead of a consonant? Repetition.

--No, it's called alliteration. the term is not specific to vowels or consonants. "Aunt Anne ain't an alcoholic" is considered alliteration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.31.67.211 (talk) 16:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

RE: 'Deliberate?' and 'Alliteration vs Repetition'

Don't confuse alliteration with consonance.

When the same consonant is repeated in the middle words that are strung together, it is called consonance. So, in the example

"...stylistic device, or literary technique, in which successive words (more strictly, stressed syllables) begin with the same consonant sound or letter."

the only real alliteration is with the words stylistic, successive, strictly, stressed, syllables, same and sound. All of the other highlighted 's' sounds are consonance.

When this happens with vowels, it is called assonance.

Also, I had always thought that alliteration was the term for vowels and consonants. It is quite possible that I am wrong.

Trinabeenabear 13:03, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Consonance

This article looked more like consonance than alliteration. I changed it (anonymously) to talk more about leading letters, but I am not a linguist... Simonmckenzie 02:06, 10 October 2007 (UTC)