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Alliteration

Alliteration Definition And Meaning
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 See Also \| rhyme \| rime Alliteration In Webster's Dictionary \Allit`era"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.

Alliteration Definition And Meaning

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

See Also | rhyme | rime

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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