alliteration

stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase
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alliteration

Summary

alliteration ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (538 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • alliteration's image is recorded as GlasgowViaVeritasVita.jpg[2].
  • alliteration's GND ID is recorded as 4120868-7[3].
  • alliteration's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85003695[4].
  • alliteration's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 126512380[5].
  • alliteration's subclass of is recorded as literary consonance[6].
  • alliteration's subclass of is recorded as stylistic device[7].
  • alliteration's Commons category is recorded as Alliteration[8].
  • alliteration's pronunciation audio is recorded as De-Alliteration.ogg[9].
  • alliteration's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 23949[10].
  • alliteration's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f_lq[11].
  • alliteration's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 414[12].
  • alliteration's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 808[13].
  • alliteration's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 808.1[14].
  • alliteration's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1151259[15].
  • alliteration's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[16].
  • alliteration's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • alliteration's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • alliteration's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[19].
  • alliteration's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20].
  • alliteration's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[21].
  • alliteration's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[22].
  • alliteration's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/alliteration[23].
  • alliteration's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q56296676[24].
  • alliteration's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as alliteration-rhetorique[25].
  • alliteration's NE.se ID is recorded as allitteration[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for alliteration include Philadelphia Phillies[27], a baseball team[28], in United States[29], founded in 1883[30], headquartered in Philadelphia[31].

Why It Matters

alliteration ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (538 views/month).[1] alliteration has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] alliteration is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for alliteration include Philadelphia Phillies[27], a baseball team[28], in United States[29], founded in 1883[30], headquartered in Philadelphia[31].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . google.com. google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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