The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. Alliteration need not reuse all initial consonants; “pizza” and “place” alliterate. Example: “W [..]

Alliteration is the use of words beginning with the same letter to achieve a poetical effect. Shakespeare (Macbeth) 'Good things of day begin to droop and drowse. See Also: Figure of Spe [..]

1650s, "a begining with the same letter," from Modern Latin alliterationem (nominative alliteratio), noun of action from past participle stem of alliterare "to begin with the same lette [..]

literary device of using the same letter, sound, or sound group at the beginning of closely connected words.

Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound. For instance, the phrase "buckets of big blue berries" alliterates with the co [..]

The repetition of the consonant sound at the beginning of words.

The repetition of sounds, especially consonant sounds, within a passage of prose or verse. The repetition of vowel sounds is sometimes distinguished from alliteration and called assonance. Consonance [..]

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

The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." Hopkins, "In the Valley of the Elwy."

the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds through a sequence of words—for example, "While I nodded, nearly napping" in Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven."

In poetry: the repetition of sounds in closely associated words. The term is usually applied to the repetition of consonants, particularly when they are the first letter of the words, but can apply to [..]

The repetition of the same consonants (usually the initial sounds of words or of stressed syllables) at the start of several words or syllables in sequence or in close proximity to each other. In Angl [..]

Also called “initial rhyme”, alliteration is a rhyme-pattern produced inside the poetic line by repeating sounds at the beginning of words. For example, “With old woes new wail my dear time’s waste” Shakespeare, Sonnet 30.

– A-LITTER-A-SHUN The repetition of a sound in different words close enough for the ear to hear them together. Alliteration was often used in early poetry before the popularity of rhyme. Almost every [..]

The reiterated initial consonants of the proximate words in a poem. For more details, click the page written by Ted Nellen.

The repetition of a consonant sound – “storm strewn sea.”

The recurrence, in close succession, of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words. In 'ripe, red raspberry', the repetition of the 'r' sound creates a rich au [..]

 – the repetition of sounds in the beginnings of word; front rhyme

 the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginning of words Example

the repetition of the same consonant sound, especially at the beginning of several consecutive words in the same line e.g. ‘Five miles meandering in a mazy motion’. (From ‘Kubla Khan’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge).

The recurrence of initial consonant sounds. The repetition can be juxtaposed (and then it is usually limited to two words): Ah, what a delicious day!

The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration), as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that [..]

The repetition of beginning consonant sounds through a sequence of words. Gerard Manley Hopkins is noted for using alliteration in lines such as “Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;” from “ [..]

A characteristic of ancient Northern European poetry such as Beowulf consisting of the use of words with the same initial letter. This principle was adopted by Richard Wagner in Der Ring des Nibelunge [..]

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'. T [..]

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

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The repetition of initial phoneme either across syllables or across words. For example, "Happy hippos hop on Harry." See onset

repetition of the same sound beginning several words placed close together, usually adjacent. See also: assonance, consonance, parechesis, paroemion.

a series of words in a sentence all beginning with the same sound.

Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.

  The repetition for effect of the same initial letter in successive words within a group of words. The letter is usually, but not necessarily, a consonant (e.g., Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled [..]

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)

Open up your ears, Shmoopers. Alliteration is a term used to describe the repetition of initial consonant sounds. More simply put, alliteration is what happens when words that begin with the same cons [..]