Alliteration Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in… — Margaret Atwood
A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts! — Albert Brooks
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And… — Lauren F. Winner
Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs,… — John Edgar Wideman
Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty… — Aldous Huxley
Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.) — Truman Capote
In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms… — Eugene H. Peterson
Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space,… — Frederick Lenz
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain… — James Whistler
Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside… — Ben Gibbard
Alliteration seems to offend people. — Dean Koontz
There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence. — Moira J. Moore
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration. — Lewis Carroll
Jack furiously chopped vegetables. "Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm...Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away… — Kiersten White
No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for… — Kevin Hearne
I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration. — Karen Russell
Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance and alliteration of… — Sherman Alexie

Who Wrote These Alliteration Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 17 Alliteration Quotes as follows: