| Alliteration: Figure of emphasis that occurs through the repetition of initial consonant letters (or sounds) in two or more different words across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases. Two kinds may be distinguished: 1) Immediate juxtaposition occurs when the second consonant sound follows right after the first -- back-to-back. 2) Non-immediate juxtaposition occurs when the consonants occur in nonadjacent words. |
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| Immediate Juxtaposition: "I think a need a bigger box." -- Taco Bell Commercial | |
| Non-immediate Juxtaposition: "No one standing in this house today can pass a puritanical test of purity that some are demanding that our elected leaders take." -- Richard Gephardt | |
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Rivers: Hello...Who's the honcho around here? Radio Station Honcho: I am. Who're you? "...Well, sir, I'm Jordan Rivers. And these here are the Soggy Bottom Boys out of Cottonelia, Mississippi -- songs of salvation to salve the soul. Uh, we hear that you pay good money to sing into a can." -- delivered by George Clooney (from the movie 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?) |
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"Isn't that what being an international
man of
mystery is all about?"
-- delivered by Mike Myers (from the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery) |
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"Was he not unmistakably a little
man? A creature of the petty rake-off,
pocketed with a
petty joke in
private and denied with the stainless
platitudes in his public
utterances."
-- [C.S. Lewis] The Screwtape Letters |
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"With a determination for an execution consistent with our record, squaring our performances with our promises, we will proceed to the fulfillment of the Party's mission. God helping, it shall be accomplished." -- Will H. Hays |
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"Have you forgotten you're facing the single finest fighting force ever assembled." -- delivered by Dan Ackroyd (from the movie Dragnet) Note: Contains both immediate and non-immediate juxtaposition. |
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"Now in the third year of his Administration we find more of our people unemployed than at any other time. We find our houses empty and our people hungry; many of them half-clothed and many of them not clothed at all. We find not only the people not only going further into debt, but that the United States is going further into debt. The condition has become deplorable. Instead of his promises, the only remedy that Mr. Roosevelt has described is to borrow more money if he can, and to go further into debt. And with it all there stalks a slimy specter of want, hunger, destitution, and pestilence." -- Huey P. Long, Address to Senate Staffers |
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"Somewhere
at this very moment a child is being
born in America. Let it be our cause to
give that child a happy home, a healthy family,
and a hopeful future." -- Bill Clinton, 1992 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address Note: Contains both immediate and non-immediate juxtaposition. |
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"In the United States today we have more than
our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism." -- delivered by Spiro Agnew and written by William Safire, Address at San Diego, 11 September 1970 |
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"And
our nation itself is testimony to the love our veterans have had for it
and for us. All for which America stands is safe today because brave men
and women have been ready to face the fire at
freedom's front." -- Ronald Reagan, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Address Note: Contains both immediate and non-immediate juxtaposition. |
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"Step forward, Tin Man. You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk...And you, Scarecrow, have the effrontery to ask for a brain! You billowing bale of bovine fodder!" -- delivered by Frank "Wizard of Oz" Morgan (from the movie The Wizard of Oz) Note: Contains both immediate and non-immediate juxtaposition. |
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