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An article adds alliterative appeal if it includes identical initial icons in the trope title that the troper thought to try, where words will without exception employ equivalent establishing emblems.

... Or if phrased more obviously, the particularly pithy practice of combining common consonants at the beginning of words. It's a specific Sub-Trope of two phonetic father phenomena — "consonance" (consonants) and "assonance" (vowels), wherein similar sounds can occur anywhere in the individual words.

Different degrees of alliteration are definitely doable, provided one pays particular ponderance to these specified circumstances:

Alliteration applies to a particular piece's pronunciation more than its specific spelling . As an easy example, " F atal F amily Ph oto" is obviously indicative of Added Alliterative Appeal ("ph" = "f"), whereas " C ombat by Ch ampion" is ...not as much ("c" and "ch" have decidedly different dictations). However, a phrase, name, nickname, or title that is alliterative only in spelling can still be considered an alliteration. One must regard regional pronunciations with proper precaution; " Tr ial by Ch ampion" allows alliteration in occasional accents (" Ch rial"), but decidedly not in others, and not in RP/Standard.

As an easy example, " atal amily oto" is obviously indicative of Added Alliterative Appeal ("ph" = "f"), whereas " ombat by ampion" is ...not as much ("c" and "ch" have decidedly different dictations). However, a phrase, name, nickname, or title that is alliterative only in spelling can still be considered an alliteration. One must regard regional pronunciations with proper precaution; " ial by ampion" allows alliteration in occasional accents (" rial"), but decidedly not in others, and not in RP/Standard. Advertisement: Alliteration doesn't really require every individual word shares similar starting sounds so minor words lacking verbal stress can be effectively exempted. Take "Breaking the Bonds" for example; nobody notices the thorny "the" therein.

It's currently defined in two ways, when alliteration occurs as a quirky Character Tic (which may or may not mean there's something off about them), or when a short phrase or sentence is mainly alliterative, beyond an isolated common phrase like "knobby knees".

Individual interpretation of this purposeful practice varies by viewer: It can range from a good grammar gag to a personal pet peeve. Indeed, it is somewhat susceptible to the Rule of Three, so be careful when considering questionable cases.

Considering Author Appeal, Rule of Funny, or Rule of Cool would be a good idea as well.

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Sister Trope of Rhymes on a Dime. A Tongue Twister often, although not universally, involves this trope, and frequent use may result in Purple Prose.

If you are looking for the list of alliterative trope names that was previously here, they have been moved to subpages of Alliterative Name.

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Anime and Manga

In Samurai Champloo, Fuu is described as seeking: "the samurai who smells of sunflowers."

Audio Play

Big Finish Doctor Who: The Girl Who Never Was: Byron : And I won't have some p onstop p irate p it me to the p ost. The Doctor : I think a p erson's p rivate p ockets are p rivate, and if you will p lunder a p erson's p rivate's p ockets.



Comic Books

During the Silver Age of Marvel Comics, Doctor Strange would spout alliteratives, usually in place of expletives, or as his personal version of "verily, I say unto thee." One of Doc Strange's favorites is "by the hoary hosts of Horgoth!", though he has many others as the Master of Mysticism.

Stan Lee worships alliteration, to the point where the Fantastic Four's arch-nemesis Doctor Doom was almost scrapped because Lee couldn't think of a suitable alliterative for Doom; he'd pondered Donald Doom in desperation before hitting upon Doctor Doom.

Figment has the Sound Sprites, who create objects from sound. Because of this, they prize aural perfection and speak entirely in alliteration to reflect this. Anything and anyone that doesn't communicate in this manner is considered imperfect/cacophonic, a source of bad audio, and must be imprisoned.

Garfield: His 9 Lives: "Bought the farm for failing to field a fetched frap tree."

Misfit City: The town the comic is set in is known as Cannon Cove.

Robin: Tim and some classmates discuss an assignment on Shakespeare's use of alliteration, and when several of them says they don't understand what alliteration is Tim eventually responds with, "Stupid students stagnantly steeped in stupor", which gets it to click for one of them, who responds with the tongue twister "Sally sells seashells."

V for Vendetta: V introduces himself in a speech that is rife with words starting with the letter "V". After Finch takes acid, V comes up with: V: V aulting, v eering, v omiting up the v alues that v ictimized me, feeling v ast, feeling v irginal... was this how he felt? This v erve, this v itality... this v ision... La v oie... la v verite... la v ie.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: As fighting the Trinexx, Link exclaims: "This is one schizoid serpent!"

Comic Strips

Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin consistently creates added alliterative appeal in his freeform flights of fantasy featuring Spaceman Spiff (a Buck Rogers Expy) and Stupendous Man (a Superman Expy): Z orched by Z arches, S paceman S piff's c rippled c raft c rashes on P lanet P lootarg! Z ounds! The z ealous Z arches have followed Spiff to the planet's surface to finish him off! YES! It's... STUPENDOUS MAN! F riend of f reedom! Opp onent of opp ression! L over of l iberty! With stupendous powers of reasoning, the c aped c ombatant c oncludes there's no need for homework if there's no school tomorrow! STUPENDOUS MAN has the strength of a m illion m ortal m en! Give up! With m uscles of m agnitude, STUPENDOUS MAN fights with heroic resolve!

Dykes to Watch Out For: Bechdel sometimes indulges in this. Take these examples using the letter "P": The narrative caption "Mo's p ulchritudinous p al p erforms her p uerile p oetry" The title of one of Sydney's papers, " P olysemous P erversity: P aradigms of P leasure in the P ornographic P urview".



Fan Works

Film — Animated

The third verse of Baloo's "Bare Necessities" song in The Jungle Book (1967) is one long tongue twister: Now when you pick a pawpaw

Or a prickly pear

And you prick a raw paw

Next time beware

Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw

When you pick a pear

Try to use the claw

But you don't need to use the claw, when you pick a pear of the big pawpaw

Have I given you a clue?

Toy Story 2, when Slinky in the baggage conveyor area when the suitcase he's on ends up going onto another conveyor belt: "Buzz, my back end's goin' to Baton Rouge!"

Film — Live Action

The Amazing Spider-Man has this moment: The Lizard: Poor Peter Parker. No mother, no father, no uncle; Poor Peter Parker. No mother, no father, no uncle; you're all alone

Battle of Britain: "Leave the flaming fighters! It's the bloody bombers we want!"

Lampshaded by Aaron in Broadcast News when Tom starts alliterating. Aaron: [half-drunk] A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Minerva McGonagall tells the students to not behave "like a band of babbling, bumbling band of baboons" on the Yule Ball.

In More Dead Than Alive, showman Mark Ruffalo speaks this way when drumming up business for his Shooting Show & Death Display: Mark: Step right up and see the spectacular shooting show and death display. See the world's greatest gunslinger. He's sharp. He's a shootin' shark. So step right up and get your tickets here, ladies and gentlemen.

The Producers - The musical and 2005 version: Roger: This crazy Kraut is crackers! He crashed in here and crassly tried to kill us.

Carmen : Oh, Roger, what alliteration!

From Shock Treatment: "Farley Flavors' Fabulous Fast Foods Feed and Fortify Families for a Fabulous Future!"

In So I Married an Axe Murderer, Charlie recites a poem describing Harriet as a "hard-hearted harbinger of haggis."

V for Vendetta: V: V oila! In v iew, a humble v aude v illian v eteran cast v icariously as both v ictim and v illain by the v icissitudes of Fate. This v isage, no mere v eneer of v anity, is a v estige of the v ox populi, now v acant and v anished. Howe v er, this v alorous v isitation of a bygone v exation stands v i v ified and has v owed to v anquish these v enal and v irulent v ermin v anguarding v ice and v ouchsafing the v iolently v icious and v oracious v iolation of v olition! [slashes a large V through a propaganda poster] The only v erdict is v engeance; a v endetta held as a v oti v e, not in v ain, for the v alue and v eracity of such shall one day v indicate the v igilant and the v irtuous. [giggles] V erily, this v ichyssoise of v erbiage v eers most v erbose, so let me simply add that it's my v ery good honor to meet you and you may call me 'V '.

Early on in XXX, Agent Gibbons points out that their agent was killed because he didn't fit in with Anarchy 99 and suggests finding someone who does. When he shows off the chosen candidates, he calls them "the best and the brightest from the bottom of the barrel."

Literature

Live-Action Television

Mnemonics

Physics: downplayed in "Speed is a scalar. Velocity is a vector." The initial consonent sounds in speed and scalar aren't really the same. Despite this, the definition doesn't stick: "velocity" is routinely used for "speed".

Seen in a chemistry text: "Electrons leave the left." The initial "e" in "electron" has the same weight as "the". Alliteration is often used to help remember things:

Music

Aftermath: "Stupid Girl": She purrs like a pussy-cat

Andrew Jackson Jihad: There are 28 words in the first stanza of "A Song Dedicated to the Memory of Stormy the Rabbit", and 19 of them begin with F: For four fortnights I have fled from my fortress

Foraging forests five footsteps in length

Fortitude found within forty-ounce bottles

Flowing like flies from your face

From your face

Joni Mitchell has a famous example in "Big Yellow Taxi": They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

In tribute to the V for Vendetta example, the great Luke Ski's "It's a Fanboy Christmas 2: The Wrath of Claus " features: "Fantastic fen, file in fast for this fanciful frolicking through fandom's fabulous frivolities of festive times of the fantastic future! While first and foremost a fallacy, fear not as this farcical fop felicitates to you, 'It's a Fanboy Christmas 2: The Wrath of Claus'!"

" features: "Fantastic fen, file in fast for this fanciful frolicking through fandom's fabulous frivolities of festive times of the fantastic future! While first and foremost a fallacy, fear not as this farcical fop felicitates to you, 'It's a Fanboy Christmas 2: The Wrath of Claus'!" In Second Person's "Wood": Are you my love, my landlord, my lawyer

In "I Am a Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel: A winter's day

In a deep and dark December

I am alone

Gazing through my window to the street below

On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow

Theater

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Miles Gloriosus tends to speak like this: Miles: ...the beautiful bride I bargained for. Miles: Now, I rid Rome of a rascal. This is Lampshaded by Pseudolus at one point: Miles: Her bridal bower becomes a burial bier of bitter bereavement!

Pseudolus: Very good! Can you say "Titus the tailor told ten tall tales to Titania the titmouse"?

Hamilton: Washington's first verse in "Right Hand Man" uses this, as a shoutout to The Pirates of Penzance. Now I'm the m odel of a m odern m ajor general

The v enerated V irginian v eteran whose men are all

Lining up to p ut me on a p edestal

Writing letters to relatives

E mbellishing my e legance and e loquence During Hamilton's section of "Cabinet Battle #2": M eddling in the m iddle of a m ilitary m ess One of Hamilton's verses in "We Know": I never s pent a c ent that wasn't mine

You s end the dogs after my sc ent - that's fine! Burr's description of Lafayette in "Guns and Ships": He's c onstantly c onfusing, c onfounding the British henchmen

Ev'ryone give it up for America's f avorite f ighting F renchman A brief but tongue-twisting example from "Helpless": "We were at a r evel with some r ebels on a hot night." Not just word-to-word, but syllable-to-syllable in "Washington on Your Side": "If Washington isn't gon' listen to d iscipline d d issi d ents this is the d ifference: This kid is out!" Also in the cut song "Congratulations": "I l anguished in a l oveless marriage in L ondon, I l ived only to read your l etters."

My Fair Lady: Tongue twisters made of these are used as teaching tools, such as "In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen."

Video Games

Webcomics

Astray 3: Fidolus's first words are this and Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Most of his words are Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Fidolus: Desist you ponderous pile of perfidious filth!

Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Most of his words are Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Darths & Droids episode 692 : GM: Delivered to this dark, dank den of despair, you discern a disarray of disheartened, disfigured, and dismembered droids.

Pete: You've been practising that sentence, haven't you?

GM: Definitely. Delivered to this dark, dank den of despair, you discern a disarray of disheartened, disfigured, and dismembered droids.You've been practising that sentence, haven't you?Definitely.

: Paranatural: Max does this at one point: Max: I possess a plethora of popularity prerequisites.

Schlock Mercenary: strip 2018-06-03 : It is a city of poets and priests, pastors and pilgrims, and plenty of people whose title begin with letters other than "P"...

Web Original

Western Animation

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