{"id":1060,"date":"2023-12-30T04:47:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T04:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/30\/alliteration\/"},"modified":"2023-12-30T04:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T04:47:59","slug":"alliteration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/30\/alliteration\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliteration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">A reader who likes my alliteration found this specimen in a post from 2010:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The sobriety of solitary silence is superior to the sloughing off of self into the social . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Perhaps I overdo it. An argument against alliterative excess is that it could distract the reader from the content.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.3333px;\">A good writer attends to his style, but does not permit style to get in the way of content.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.3333px;\">&quot;Style is the physiognomy of the mind,&quot; wrote Schopenhauer to open his great essay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themontrealreview.com\/2009\/On-Style.php\">On Style<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.3333px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/literarydevices.net\/\">Here<\/a> is a long list of literary devices. There I go, alliterating again.&#0160; I did not do it intentionally! It just came out like that.&#0160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader who likes my alliteration found this specimen in a post from 2010: The sobriety of solitary silence is superior to the sloughing off of self into the social . . . . Perhaps I overdo it. An argument against alliterative excess is that it could distract the reader from the content.&#0160;&#0160; A good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/30\/alliteration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alliteration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters","category-schopenhauer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}