Define the word Alliteration"Alliteration" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Alliteration \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:
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Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
His vastness. --Milton.
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Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. --Tennyson.
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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.
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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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"alliteration" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
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" [syn: initial rhyme, beginning rhyme, head rhyme]
"alliteration" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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