"Alliteration seems to offend people." — Dean Koontz

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• Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid… — 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… — Lauren F. Winner
• Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words… — John Edgar Wideman
• Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He… — Aldous Huxley
• Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is… — Truman Capote
• In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going… — Eugene H. Peterson
• Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once… — Frederick Lenz
• The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom -… — James Whistler
• Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have… — Ben Gibbard
• 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… — Lewis Carroll

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