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Alliteration
Alliteration Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Alliteration?
[n] use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Alliteration: beginning rhyme | head rhyme | initial rhyme Related Terms | Find terms related to Alliteration: assonance | blank verse | chime | clink | consonance | crambo | dingdong | double rhyme | drone | eye rhyme | harping | humdrum | jingle | jingle-jangle | monotone | monotony | near rhyme | paronomasia | pitter-patter | pun | repeated sounds | repetitiousness | repetitiveness | rhyme | rhyme royal | rhyme scheme | rhyming dictionary | single rhyme | singsong | slant rhyme | stale repetition | tail rhyme | tedium | trot | unnecessary repetition | unrhymed poetry Alliteration In Webster's Dictionary \Al*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. ad + litera letter. See
{Letter}.]
The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or
more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short
intervals; as in the following lines:
Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness.
--Milton.
Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. --Tennyson.
Note: The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of
words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry
is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort.
Later poets also employed it.
In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne, I shope
me in shroudes as I a shepe were. --P. Plowman.
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