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Definition of Alliteration

1. 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"

Definition of Alliteration

1. 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: -

Definition of Alliteration

1. Noun. The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals. ¹

2. Noun. The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alliteration

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Alliteration

1. In psychiatry, a speech disturbance in which words commencing with the same sounds, usually consonants, are notably frequent. Origin: Fr. Alliteration, fr. L. Ad, to, + littera, letter of alphabet (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alliteration

Literary usage of Alliteration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"alliteration AND ASSONANCE. - To trace the history of alliteration and assonance would ... And it is notorious that alliteration has a peculiar charm for ..."

2. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1885)
"alliteration in Latin* BY TRACY PECK, PROFESSOR IN YALE COLLEGE. THE Latin language shares with other languages a disposition to emphasize an idea by some ..."

3. A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry: 150 B.C.-pre-fifth/sixth by V. S. Rajam (1992)
"alliteration between different feet within a line also has different names. The one existing between the first and second feet within a line is an inni ..."

4. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"But here also the First-English poet married sound to sense, and applied the emphasis of alliteration only at the points of greatest stress in the ..."

5. Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music: Together with Music as a by George Lansing Raymond (1894)
"Like Effects in the Sounds of Syllables—alliteration—In Hebrew Poetry— In Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, German—In Anglo-Saxon— As Used by Milton ..."

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