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{{quote|'''''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'''".''|'''[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|V]]''', ''[[V for Vendetta]]''}}
{{quote|'''''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'''".''|'''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|V]]''', ''[[V for Vendetta]]''}}


'''Alliteration''' is the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.
[[Self Demonstrating Article|An article adds alliterative appeal]]<br />if it includes identical initial icons in<br />the trope title that the troper thought to try,<br />where words will without<br />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 "asonance" (vowels), wherein similar sounds can occur anywhere in the individual words.
It is a 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. Alliteration might just have the same letter at the beginning of the word, like in "[[Added Alliterative Appeal]]", even though the leading "A"s do not share the same pronunciation.


Different degrees of alliteration are definitely doable, provided one pays particular ponderance to the proceeding points:
Different degrees of alliteration are definitely doable, provided one pays particular ponderance to the proceeding points:
* 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 so much ("c" and "ch" have decidedly different dictations).
* 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 so much ("c" and "ch" have decidedly different dictations).
* 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. "[[Petting Zoo People]]", likewise, plays on its pair of P's, letting the Z slip by unnoticed. (And your thesaurus will thank you.)
* 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. "[[Petting Zoo People]]", likewise, plays on its pair of P's, letting the Z slip by unnoticed. (And your thesaurus will thank you.)


Individual interpretation of this practice varies by viewer: It can range from a [[Tropes Are Not Bad|good grammar gag]] to a [[Tropes Are Not Good|personal pet peeve]]. Indeed, it is somewhat susceptible to the [[Rule of Three]], so be careful when considering questionable cases.
Individual interpretation of this practice varies by viewer: It can range from a [[Tropes Are Not Bad|good grammar gag]] to a [[Tropes Are Not Good|personal pet peeve]]. Indeed, it is somewhat susceptible to the [[Rule of Three]], so be careful when considering questionable cases.


{{examples|Exemplary execution of Alliteration:}}
See [[Alliterative Name]] for characters in works with [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|alliterative names]]; and [[Alliterative Title]] for works that are given [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|alliterative titles]].
* [[:Category:Alliterative Trope Titles]]: List of all tropes that have this property.
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* [[Alliterative List]]
=== Tropes with alliterative names ===
* [[Alliterative Family]]
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* [[Alliterative Title]]
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* [[Absurdity Ascendant]]
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* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]] (Assuredly)
* [[Anatomy Arsenal]]
* [[Characteristic Clothing Colors]]
* [[Cranium Coverings]]
* [[Invertebrate Index]]
* [[Ironic Index]]
* [[Standard Superhero Suits]]
* [[Various Videogame Views]]
* [[Werewolf Works]]
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* [[Australian Accent]]
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** [[Bigger Bad]]
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* [[Bigger Is Better in Bed]]
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* [[Creepy Crossdresser]]
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* [[Dating Do Si Do]]
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* [[Deadly Doctor]]
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* [[Decoy Damsel]]
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* [[Depraved Dwarf]]
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* [[Dinky Drivers]]
* [[Dinner Deformation]]
* [[Directionless Driver]]
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* [[Disaster Dominoes]]
* [[Disco Dan]]
* [[Discreet Dining Disposal]]
* [[Discreet Drink Disposal]]
* [[Disguised in Drag]]
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* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]
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* [[Distracting Disambiguation]]
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* [[Doom Doors]]
* [[Doomed Defeatist]]
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* [[Dowsing Device]]
* [[Drunk Driver]]
* [[Due to The Dead]]
* [[Dueling Dubs]]
* [[Dumbass DJ]]
* [[Durable Deathtrap]]
* [[Dying Declaration of Love]]
* [[Dying Dream]]
* [[Dynamic Difficulty]]
* [[Easter Egg]]
* [[Easy Evangelism]]
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* [[Eccentric Exterminator]]
* [[Emotion Eater]]
* [[Empathic Environment]]
* [[Emphasize Everything]]
* [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity]]
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* [[Enter Eponymous]]
* [[Equivalent Exchange]]
* [[Erotic Eating]]
* [[Eternal Engine]]
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* [[Every Episode Ending]]
* [[Everything Explodes Ending]]
* [[Evil Elevator]]
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* [[Exposed Extraterrestrials]]
* [[Expressive Ears]]
* [[Extracurricular Enthusiast]]
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* [[Fake Food]]
* [[Famous Famous Fictional]]
* [[Fantastic Foxes]]
* [[Far Out Foreigners Favorite Food]]
* [[Fatal Family Photo]]
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* [[Faux Fluency]]
* [[Favouritism Flip Flop]]
* [[Fearless Fool]]
* [[Fearsome Foot]]
* [[Feathered Fiend]]
* [[Fee Fi Faux Pas]]
* [[Female Feline Male Mutt]]
* [[Femininity Failure]]
* [[Feminist Fantasy]]
* [[Femme Fatalons]]
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* [[Festering Fungus]]
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* [[Fetish Fuel Future]]
* [[Feuding Families]]
* [[Fight Finishing Fist Frame]]
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* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]
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* [[Granola Girl]]
* [[Gratuitous Greek]]
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* [[Gusty Glade]]
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* [[Half Human Hybrid]]
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* [[Hammy Herald]]
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* [[The Hard Hat]]
* [[Hard Head]]
* [[Hartman Hips]]
* [[Hated Hometown]]
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* [[Movie Making Mess]]
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* [[Mushroom Man]]
* [[The Music Meister]]
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* [[Nerd Nanny]]
* [[Niche Network]]
* [[No Nonsense Nemesis]]
* [[Non Indicative Name]]
* [[The Nose Knows]]
* [[Nose Nuggets]]
* [[Nosy Neighbor]]
* [[Notable Non Sequitur]]
* [[The Notable Numeral]]
* [[Nuclear Nasty]]
* [[Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation]]
* [[Occidental Otaku]]
* [[The Only One]]
* [[Orphans Ordeal]]
* [[Outdated Outfit]]
* [[Overt Operative]]
* [[Palate Propping]]
* [[Palmtree Panic]]
* [[Paper People]]
* [[Paradox Person]]
* [[Parallel Parking]]
* [[Parasol of Prettiness]]
* [[Parasol Parachute]]
* [[Pardo Push]]
* [[Parking Payback]]
* [[Parking Problems]]
* [[Parrot Pet Position]]
* [[Passion Play]]
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]
* [[Pastimes Prove Personality]]
* [[People Puppets]]
* [[Percussive Pickpocket]]
* [[Percussive Prevention]]
* [[Perfect Pacifist People]]
* [[Perfect Poison]]
* [[Period Piece]]
* [[Perpetual Poverty]]
* [[Perplexing Plurals]]
* [[Personality Powers]]
* [[Perverse Puppet]]
* [[Petal Power]]
* [[Picture Perfect Presentation]]
* [[Pieta Plagiarism]]
* [[Pillow Pistol]]
* [[Pillow Pregnancy]]
* [[Pinball Projectile]]
* [[Pinching Pain]]
* [[Pipe Pain]]
* [[Piranha Problem]]
* [[Pirate Parrot]]
* [[Pistol Pose]]
* [[Pitying Perversion]]
* [[Place of Power]]
* [[Platonic Prostitution]]
* [[Player Punch]]
* [[Playing Pictionary]]
* [[Pleasure Planet]]
* [[Plot Parallel]]
* [[Pocket Protector]]
* [[Poisonous Person]]
* [[Poke the Poodle]]
* [[Popularity Polynomial]]
* [[Popularity Power]]
* [[Porky Pig Pronunciation]]
* [[Portal Picture]]
* [[Portal Pool]]
* [[Portrait Painting Peephole]]
* [[Possessive Paradise]]
* [[Power Parasite]]
* [[Powerful Pick]]
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]
* [[Powers As Programs]]
* [[Powers Via Possession]]
* [[Prayer Pose]]
* [[Prescience Is Predictable]]
* [[Pressure Plate]]
* [[Pretend Prejudice]]
* [[Preview Piggybacking]]
* [[Prickly Porcupine]]
* [[Pride Parade]]
* [[Princesses Prefer Pink]]
* [[Produce Pelting]]
* [[Product Promotion Parade]]
* [[Production Posse]]
* [[Prolonged Prologue]]
* [[Promotion to Parent]]
* [[Properly Paranoid]]
* [[Protective Pressure]]
* [[Protocol Peril]]
* [[Pro Wrestling Is Real]]
* [[Psmith Psyndrome]]
* [[Psycho Psychologist]]
* [[Punch Packing Pistol]]
* [[Puni Plush]]
* [[Puny Parachute]]
* [[Puppet Permutation]] (the entire article, in fact)
* [[Pursued Protagonist]]
* [[Pursuing Parental Perils]]
* [[Puzzle Pan]]
* [[Racial Remnant]]
* [[Raised By Robots]]
* [[Ransacked Room]]
* [[Rascally Rabbit]]
* [[Rascally Raccoon]]
* [[Rebellious Rebel]]
* [[Rebel Relaxation]]
* [[Reclining Reigner]]
* [[Recurring Riff]]
* [[Recursive Reality]]
* [[Redemption in The Rain]]
* [[Red Shirt Reporter]]
* [[Redundant Researcher]]
* [[Redundant Romance Attempt]]
* [[Reformed but Rejected]]
* [[Regal Ringlets]]
* [[Reincarnation Romance]]
* [[Relationship Reboot]]
* [[Relationship Reveal]]
* [[Religious Robot]]
* [[Religious Russian Roulette]]
* [[Reluctant Retiree]]
* [[Reluctant Ruler]]
* [[Renegade Russian]]
* [[Requisite Royal Regalia]]
* [[Rescue Romance]]
* [[Resemblance Reveal]]
* [[Restrained Revenge]]
* [[Resurrected Romance]]
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]
* [[Reunion Revenge]]
* [[Revenge Romance]]
* [[Rewind Replay Repeat]]
* [[Rewriting Reality]]
* [[Rhino Rampage]]
* [[Ribcage Ridge]]
* [[Riches to Rags]]
* [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue]]
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]
* [[Robotic Reveal]]
* [[Robot Religion]]
* [[Rocket Ride]]
* [[Romantic Resolutions]]
* [[Roofless Renovation]]
* [[Rookie Red Ranger]]
* [[Royal Rapier]]
* [[Rule of Romantic]]
* [[Rump Roast]]
* [[Rushmore Refacement]]
* [[Russian Roulette]]
* [[Samaritan Syndrome]]
* [[Sanctuary of Solitude]]
* [[Sanity Slippage]]
* [[Sanity Strengthening]]
* [[Sapient Cetaceans]]
* [[Sapient Steed]]
* [[Sassy Secretary]]
* [[Satiating Sandwich]]
* [[Scale of Scientific Sins]]
* [[Scar Survey]]
* [[Scaramanga Special]]
* [[Scarecrow Solution]]
* [[Scary Scarecrows]]
* [[Scary Scorpions]]
* [[School for Scheming]]
* [[Schoolgirl Series]]
* [[Screwball Serum]]
* [[Screwy Squirrel]]
* [[Script Swap]]
* [[Scully Syndrome]]
* [[Sea Stories]]
* [[Seahorse Steed]]
* [[Searching the Stalls]]
* [[Segmented Serpent]]
* [[Seiza Squirm]]
* [[Seldom Seen Species]]
* [[Selective Slaughter]]
* [[Selective Squeamishness Suppression]]
* [[Self Sacrifice Scheme]]
* [[Self Stitching]]
* [[Sending Stuff to Save The Show]]
* [[Senior Sleep Cycle]]
* [[Sense Loss Sadness]]
* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]
* [[Sensual Slavs]]
* [[Sequel Snark]]
* [[Sequential Symptom Syndrome]]
* [[Serving Suggestion]]
* [[Sesquipedalian Smith]]
* [[Severely Specialized Store]]
* [[Sex Sells]]
* [[Sex Slave]]
* [[Sexy Secretary]]
* [[Sexy Shirt Switch]]
* [[Sexy Silhouette]]
* [[Sexy Spectacles]]
* [[Sexy Stewardess]]
* [[Shapeshifter Showdown]]
* [[Shape Shifter Swan Song]]
* [[Ship Shape Shipwreck]]
* [[Shouting Shooter]]
* [[Sibling Seniority Squabble]]
* [[Sibling Switch Squick]]
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]
* [[Sideways Smile]]
* [[Sigil Spam]]
* [[Signature Scene]]
* [[Silent Scapegoat]]
* [[Silliness Switch]]
* [[Similar Squad]]
* [[Simplified Spellcasting]]
* [[Singer Songwriter]]
* [[Single Specimen Species]]
* [[Single Stanza Song]]
* [[Sinister Scimitar]]
* [[Sinister Scraping Sound]]
* [[Sinister Scythe]]
* [[Sinister Shades]]
* [[Sinister Silhouettes]]
* [[Sinister Subway]]
* [[Sinister Surveillance]]
* [[Sinking Ship Scenario]]
* [[Sir Swearsalot]]
* [[Sistine Steal]]
* [[Situational Sexuality]]
* [[Situational Sword]]
* [[Sketchy Successor]]
* [[Skintone Sclerae]]
* [[Skyscraper City]]
* [[Sky Surfing]]
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Sleeping Single]]
* [[Slippery Skid]]
* [[Slippery Soap]]
* [[Slippery Swimsuit]]
* [[Smash the Symbol]]
* [[Smelly Skunk]]
* [[Smoke Shield]]
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Smug Super]]
* [[Sniper Scope Sway]]
* [[Soapbox Sadie]]
* [[Soapbox Square]]
* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]
* [[Sole Survivor]]
* [[Solo Sequence]]
* [[Somewhere Song]]
* [[Sour Supporter]]
* [[Soviet Superscience]]
* [[Spartan Sibling]]
* [[Special Snowflake Syndrome]]
* [[Spent Shells Shower]]
* [[Spider Sense]]
* [[Spike Shooter]]
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]
* [[Spokes Sue]]
* [[Spot Light Stealing Squad]]
* [[Springy Spores]]
* [[Spurned Into Suicide]]
* [[Spy Satellites]]
* [[Spy School]]
* [[Spys Suspicious Spouse]]
* [[Stab the Salad]]
* [[Stab the Scorpion]]
* [[Standard Snippet]]
* [[Standard Starship Scuffle]]
* [[Stanley Steamer Spaceship]]
* [[Starbucks Skin Scale]]
* [[Star Spangled Spandex]]
* [[Starving Student]]
* [[Statistically Speaking]]
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]
* [[Steal the Surroundings]]
* [[Stealth in Space]]
* [[Stepford Smiler]]
* [[Stepford Snarker]]
* [[Stepford Suburbia]]
* [[Stepping Stone Sword]]
* [[Stepping Stones in The Sky]]
* [[Stillborn Serial]]
* [[Stock Scream]]
* [[Stock Super Powers]]
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]
* [[Stoic Spectacles]]
* [[Stone Soup]]
* [[Stout Strength]]
* [[Strange Salute]]
* [[Strange Syntax Speaker]]
* [[Stranger Safety]]
* [[Street Samurai]]
* [[Street Smart]]
* [[Stronger Sibling]]
* [[Stuka Scream]]
* [[Stupid Sacrifice]]
* [[Stupid Scientist]]
* [[Stutter Stop]]
* [[Stylistic Suck]]
* [[Sub Story]]
* [[Subliminal Seduction]]
* [[Subtitles Are Superfluous]]
* [[Subways Suck]]
* [[Success Symbiosis]]
* [[Suck Sessor]]
* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]
* [[Suddenly Shouting]]
* [[Suddenly Significant City]]
* [[Suddenly Suitable Suitor]]
* [[Suicide By Sunlight]]
* [[Superheroes Stay Single]]
* [[Super Senses]]
* [[Super Sentai Stance]]
* [[Super Serum]]
* [[Super Smoke]]
* [[Super Speed]]
* [[Super Strength]]
* [[Superfluous Solo]]
* [[Super Hero Speciation]]
* [[Supernatural Sensitivity]]
* [[Super Strength]]
* [[Superweapon Surprise]]
* [[Surprisingly Similar Stories]]
* [[Surrogate Soliloquy]]
* [[Surveillance Station Slacker]]
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]
* [[Suspiciously Specific Sermon]]
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]
* [[Suspicious Spending]]
* [[Sweetheart Sipping]]
* [[Sword Sparks]]
* [[Symbol Swearing]]
* [[Tacky Tuxedo]]
* [[Tactful Translation]]
* [[Tag Team]]
* [[Tag Team Twins]]
* [[Talking Through Technique]]
* [[Talking Typography]]
* [[Tall Tale]]
* [[Taxidermy Terror]]
* [[Tender Tears]]
* [[Terminator Twosome]]
* [[Terminology Title]]
* [[Termite Trouble]]
* [[Terrible Ticking]]
* [[Testes Test]]
* [[Theiss Titillation Theory]]
* [[Thematic Theme Tune]]
* [[Tick Tock Tune]]
* [[Tickle Torture]]
* [[Tim Taylor Technology]]
* [[Time Travel Tense Trouble]]
* [[Tin Tyrant]]
* [[Tongue Tied]]
* [[Tongue Twister]]
* [[Torpedo Tits]]
* [[Toy Time]]
* [[Transformation Trinket]]
* [[Transhuman Treachery]]
* [[Tremor Trampoline]]
* [[TV Teen]]
* [[Twice Told Tale]]
* [[Twin Telepathy]]
* [[Typical Tentacle Tactics]]
* [[Ultimate Universe]]
* [[Unconfessed Unemployment]]
* [[Vampire Vannabe]]
* [[Vampire Vords]]
* [[Vanishing Village]]
* [[Vegetarian Vampire]]
* [[Vehicle Vanish]]
* [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show]]
* [[Villainous Valour]]
* [[Visionary Villain]]
* [[Visions and Voices]]
* [[Volcanic Veins]]
* [[Walking Wasteland]]
* [[Wartime Wedding]]
* [[Wasteful Wishing]]
* [[Water Wakeup]]
* [[Weak Willed]]
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]
* [[Weather of War]]
* [[Weight Woe]]
* [[Wheelchair Woobie]]
* [[Where Da White Women At]]
* [[Who Would Want to Watch Us]]
* [[Wicked Witch]]
* [[Widow Witch]]
* [[Widow Woman]]
* [[Wiki Walk]]
* [[Willfully Weak]]
* [[World of Woobie]]
* [[World War Whatever]]
* [[Writer Revolt]]
* [[Written Roar]]


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Latest revision as of 21:40, 1 January 2021
Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant and vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! [slashes a large V through a propaganda poster.] The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [giggles] Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me "V".
—V, V for Vendetta

Alliteration is the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.

It is a 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. Alliteration might just have the same letter at the beginning of the word, like in "Added Alliterative Appeal", even though the leading "A"s do not share the same pronunciation.

Different degrees of alliteration are definitely doable, provided one pays particular ponderance to the proceeding points:

  • Alliteration applies to a particular piece's pronunciation more than its specific spelling. As an easy example, "Fatal Family Photo" is obviously indicative of Added Alliterative Appeal ("ph" = "f"), whereas "Combat by Champion" is ...not so much ("c" and "ch" have decidedly different dictations).
  • 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. "Petting Zoo People", likewise, plays on its pair of P's, letting the Z slip by unnoticed. (And your thesaurus will thank you.)

Individual interpretation of this 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.

Exemplary execution of Alliteration:
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