"Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered……" — Truman Capote
"Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)"
More Alliteration Quotes
- 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
- 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
- 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… — Lewis Carroll