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Alliteration

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Noun

1. alliteration, beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse

Example Sentences:
'around the rock the ragged rascal ran'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Alliteration

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noun
the use of the same consonant (consonantal alliteration) or of a vowel, not necessarily the same vowel (vocalic alliteration), at the beginning of each word or each stressed syllable in a line of verse, as in around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran

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Alliteration

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noun
repetition of an initial sound, usually of a consonant or cluster, in two or more words of a phrase, line of poetry, etc. (Ex.: “What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells!”)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Alliteration

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n.
The repetition of identical or similar sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences" (Hart Crane). Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.

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