To think Keira Knightly is NOT an alliterative name?!

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DH has Pointless on right now whilst he’s ironing.

I’ve just snapped my head up from my work at hearing them mention, during the “Actors with Alliterative Names” round that “Keira Knightley” would have won 8 points or something.

Wtf? That’s not what alliteration is! She’d have to be “Keira Kiteley” or “Neera Knightley” for her name to be alliterative.

AIBU to think I’m right, and Pointless is wrong?

Yy banivaji

Those saying it can be letters don't grasp the point of it as a poetic device I.e. the effect of the sounds when read aloud

I repeat using THE SAME letter at the beginning if a word us alliteration. Unless it's S then it's sibilance.

Assonance and constenance use sound IN the word, not the first letter. Example, brown cow moos is assonance because of repeated vowel O sound. Icy little thin ices is also assonance due to repetition of vowel "I" sounds.
Dear and adroint like the adult adulated is constenance due to repitition of "d" ( not a vowel) sound
Cats cats come is alliteration as any letter of the alphabet that is the first letter of words in a sequence is alliteration.

Okay?

Osmond is a twerp. He reads the answers and is still often subtly wrong.

People who get a person's name wrong are twerps too.

But Charlotte’s cats came chuckling is not classic alliteration even though they all start with the letter C. You have three different sounds in that sentence.

Merriam-Webster def in pic. Poetic explanation in link above.

Bumper. Assonance is defined as the internal rhyming vowel sounds in words, so only the first two words of "brown cow moos" are assonant, as is "stone roses". Alliteration refers to the sounds of the repeated consonants at the beginning of consecutive or closely positioned words.

To a PP - did you mean "consonance", not "constenance"?

Consonance is a stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighbouring words whose vowel sounds are different (e.g. coming home, hot foot). Consonance may be regarded as the counterpart to the vowel-sound repetition known as assonance.

Brizzlemunt, probably.

I say that alliteration is based on consonant sounds. Why do we notice alliteration anyway? Because it sounds dramatic. For instance, I think "Sex and the City" is alliterative. You notice the two "S" sounds when it is said out loud.

Brizzlemunt, probably.

Almost certainly RoversDisguise

Well, I've just checked and learned something new: 'The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.' (OED)

So POintless was right!!