“They composed and recited poems in a fairly simple verse form which relied heavily on alliteration and also the use of kennings.”

“Hopefully, no unsuspecting schoolchild will be expected to read the report out loud as it is a hotbed of alliteration and tongue-twisters.”

“And would somebody please verbally flog me for the alliteration in the last sentence?”

“The play on words, imagery and alliterations that fall in place so spontaneously are a treat for the philologist.”

“We are taken through a labyrinth of puns, amphibolies, alliterations, symmetries, inversions, analogies, and in a variety of tones.”

“In the poet's medieval French, the verse displays intricate internal rhymes and numerous alliterations.”

“The stressed words in Pearl provide the end-rhymes, the alliterators, and the refrain words that connect the stanzas.”