1) Beginning rhyme 2) Fe, fi, fo, fum 3) Head rhyme 4) Initial rhyme 5) Latin-language literature 6) Peck of pickled peppers 7) Peter Piper picked 8) Poetic device 9) Repetition of first letters 10) Rhyme 11) Rime 12) Twice-Told Tales, literarily 13) WORDS WORK WONDERS
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• (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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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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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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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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Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same v
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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 vast...
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Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as many men many minds; death defies the doctor. 'Apt alliteration's artful aid.' Churchhill. 'Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.' Pope. In the ancient German and Scandinavian and in early Engl...
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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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A series of words in a sentence all beginning with the same sound. For example
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Repetition of consonant sounds. A device related to rhyme. “I am Fortunes fool.”
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Different words beginning with the same letter.
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In alliteration, words that begin with the same sound are placed close together. Although alliteration often involves repetition of letters, most importantly, it is a repetition of sounds.
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the repetition of consonant sounds, even those spelled differently.
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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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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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In poetry and prose, the use, within a line or phrase, of words beginning with the same sound, as in
Two tired toads trotting to Tewkesbury. It was a common device in Old English literature, and its use survives in many traditional phrases, such as
dead as a doornail and
pretty as a picture. ...
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A stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.
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the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound groupas in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllableas in each to all. Cf. consonance (def. 4a). · the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt al...
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repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of words.
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a series of words in a sentence all beginning with the same sound.
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[Literary terms] use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
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use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
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[6th grade words] use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
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[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
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