alliteration
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin ad (“to, towards, near”) and litera (“a letter”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. - Milton. |
[edit] Noun
alliteration (plural alliterations)
- The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
- The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
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In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne, I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. - Piers Plowman. |
[edit] Translations
The repetition of consonants
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[edit] See also
Alliteration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
