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Alliteration, an Uncommon card
Alliteration is the repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels if the syllables in question do not start with a consonant.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Alliteration quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alliteration card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is often used as a ______ device.
Answer
literary. It is often used as a literary device. From the Alliteration article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
William Orbit. William Orbit 77 · Usman Nurmagomedov 73 · Alliteration 69 · Samuel E. Wright 65 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Usman Nurmagomedov. Usman Nurmagomedov 720,000 · William Orbit 460,000 · Roberto Rossellini 280,000 · Alliteration 130,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is often used as a literary device.
- A common example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alliteration article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Alliteration
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Arts cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Alliteration in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AnabasisUncommon · Arts · ATK 68 DEF 55
- Chemical compoundUncommon · Science · ATK 66 DEF 57
- OsmosisUncommon · Science · ATK 66 DEF 57
- AlstroemeriaUncommon · Nature · ATK 66 DEF 57
- Husband E. KimmelUncommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 53
- Samuel E. WrightUncommon · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 58
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Arts cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alliteration (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Vysotsky, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
