Look up: Alliteration

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   Alliteration
   repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.
   *Let us go forth to lead the land we love. J. F. Kennedy, Inaugural
   *Viri validis cum viribus luctant. Ennius
   *Veni, vidi, vici. Julius Caesar
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   Alliteration
   The effect created when words with the same initial letter (usually consonants) are used in close proximity e.g. Ariel's Songs from The Tempest 'Full fathom five thy father lies'. The repeated 'f' sound is alliterative. Alliteration is sometimes referred to as head rhyme. Other examples of alliteration include: 'Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle' from Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen and the amazing five consecutive 'ds' in The Windhover by Hopkins - 'king-dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon'.
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   alliteration
   [n] - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
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   Alliteration
   the repetition of consonant sounds - usually at the beginning of words
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   Alliteration
   e.g. The silken ship sailed silently through the sea. (Here the 's' sound is helping to reinforce the silence and the smooth grace of the ship's passage through the sea.) Poets are very fond of alliteration but look out for it also in newspaper headlines.
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   Alliteration
   a phrase where adjacent or closely connected words begin with the same phoneme: one wet wellington; free phone; several silent, slithering snakes.
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   Alliteration
   Al·lit`er·a'tion noun [ Latin 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.  ...
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   alliteration
   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) ...
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   alliteration
   initial rhyme 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`
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    Alliteration
    `Alliteration` is the repetition of a leading vowel or consonant sound in a phrase. A common example in English is `Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers`. Alliteration can take the form of assonance, the repetition of a vowel, or consonance, the repetition of a consonant; however, unlike a strict definition of alliteration, both assonance and consonance can regularly occur within words as opposed to being limited to the word's initial sou...
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    Alliteration
    • (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: -
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    alliteration
    in prosody, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables. Sometimes the repetition of initial vowel sounds ... [4 related articles]
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    alliteration
    using the same consonant to start two or more stressed words or syll= ables in a phrase or verse line, or using a series of vowels to begin such words or syllables in sequence. Alliteration need not re-use all initial consonants: words like 'train' and 'terrific' alliterate.
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    alliteration
    The repetition of a consonant at the beginning of words close together in a literary piece of art
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    alliteration
    alliteration (ulit"urā'shun) , the repetition of the same starting sound in several words of a sentence. Probably the most powerful rhythmic and thematic uses of alliteration are contained in Beowulf, written in Anglo-Saxon and one of the earliest English poems extant. For example:Ð...
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