(1) A magnificent performer on the page, she can flip, mid-paragraph, into alliterative mode to underline a point: ÔÇÿThe world is flux, flow and fruitfully fermenting doubt.ÔÇÖ(2) Such methods went on to form the basis of the first written English poetry, Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.(3) Nelson and Napoleon were celebrated - and appropriately alliterative - antagonists, though they never confronted each other directly in battle.(4) Spenser begins the stanza with an alliterative play upon ÔÇÿjoyousÔÇÖ and ÔÇÿjustÔÇÖ which lightens the atmosphere after the sober and tense portrayal of the knight's penance, while emphasising the worth of Charissa's lesson.(5) David Myers' novel The Bohemian Bourgeois is the true inheritor of that line, his protagonist's name appropriately alliterative , his behaviour equally roguish.(6) The poems are alliterative , disjunctive, unpunctuated, fabular, and also political, based as they are on maps and their borders and flags.(7) In the Heliand, a ninth-century Old Saxon alliterative verse retelling of the gospel, Christ teaches his disciples the secret runes that God spoke in the beginning when he called the world into being.(8) The two-man chorus is lent an alliterative , Anglo-Saxon form reminiscent of Heaney's Beowulf.(9) The stately and complex narrative is composed in the alliterative metre common to most early Germanic poetry, and is enhanced by rich description, decorous speeches, and moral reflection.(10) Much of this poetry fell squarely in the northern European tradition, and the literary revival of the north-west and the Midlands in the fourteenth century was mainly of alliterative , unrhymed verse.(11) All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative , and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader.(12) Southwell appears to have chosen a vernacular, alliterative style not only as a repudiation of contemporary poetic practice but also because such a style makes a statement about continuity and patriotism.(13) Each new translation of Gawain's travails places the translator in conflict with the original text - how to recreate the narrative's pace, the alliterative swatches of language, the tale's uncanny aura?(14) In the course of an hour this guy must have spoken 42,000 words, many thousand being Shakespeare quotes and alliterative adjectives describing his philosophy, his past as an actor and his experiences as a WWII British navy man.(15) The attempt to place Thomas in the Welsh bardic tradition because of his alliterative style largely fails since the poet himself disputed it.(16) Hometowns are often used by sports writers in creating alliterative nicknames.
