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- Historical use
- Types of alliteration
- Examples of use
- Poetry
- Examples from alliterative verse
- Lines from other poems
- Alliteration combined with rhyme
- Music lyrics
- Rhetoric
- Examples of alliteration from public speeches
- See also
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thumb|Via et veritas et vita|Via Veritas Vita (lat. "The path and the truth and the life", from Gospel of John 14:6). [[Motto of the University of Glasgow.]]
Alliteration is the repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels if the syllables in question do not start with a consonant. It is often used as a literary device. A common example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers".