Question

An alliteration is a stylistic device in which successive words begin with the same letter (or sometimes the same sound). In our case we will only consider alliterations that follow the "same letter" property. It is often the case that short words (three letters or less) are inserted to make the sentence make sense. Here are some examples of alliterations:

• alliteration's artful aid

• Peter parker's poems are pretty

• Round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Your program will ignore words that are three letters or less when searching for alliterations. For this program, you may assume that the first word of the sentence is at least 4 letters long. For this part of your lab, you will write a java program that asks the user to enter a sentence, word or phrase, and respond by telling the user if the input is an alliteration.

An example of your program's interactions are shown below:

ALLITERATION DETECTOR

ease enter a sentence: Peter parker's poems are pretty

Your input was: "Peter parker's poems are pretty"

The input is an alliteration

ALLITERATION DETECTOR

Please enter a sentence: Able was I ere I saw Elba

Your input was: "Able was I ere I saw Elba"

The input is not an alliteration

Answer 1

The approach to solve the problem is as follows:

• Read the text input.
• Store the first letter of the first word.
• Split the input into string array of words.
• Now set a bool value of alliteration as true.
• Use a loop and compare the letter with first letter of each word.
• If the letter does not match and the size of word is four or greater, set the bool value to false and break from the loop.
• If the bool value is still true, the text contains alliteration, otherwise it does not contain alliteration.

Java program:

import java.util.Scanner;

class Main{
    public static void main(String args[]){
        
        //object to input from keyboard
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        
        System.out.println("ALLITERATION DETECTOR");
        
        //input string from user
        System.out.print("Please enter a sentence:");
        
        String text = sc.nextLine();
        
        //display the input
        System.out.println("Your input was:" + text);
        
        //the first letter of first word
        char check = text.charAt(0);
        
        //set alliteration to true
        boolean alliteration = true;
        
        //split the string into array
        String data[] = text.split(" ");
        
        //traverse all words
        for(int i=0;i<data.length;i++){
            
            //if the letter does not match and the word length is 4 or greater
            //set alliteration to false and break
            if (data[i].charAt(0) != check && data[i].length() >= 4 )
            {
            alliteration = false;
            break;
            }
        }
        
        //if alliteration is true
        if(alliteration){
        System.out.println("The input is an alliteration. ");
        }
        
        //alliteration is false
        else {
         System.out.println("The input is not an alliteration. ");
        }
    }
}

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