alliteration

[Al*lit`er*a·tion]

Alliteration is when you use words that have the same sound at the beginning, like "Stellar students synthesize sweet sentences."

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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: -

Noun
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"


n.
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: -


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: -
Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness.
Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.
&hand; 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.

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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