Found 3 items, similar to Alliteration.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: alliteration aliterasi
English → English (WordNet) Definition: alliteration alliteration n : use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; “around the rock the ragged rascal ran” [syn: initial rhyme, beginning rhyme, head rhyme ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Alliteration Alliteration \Al*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. 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: [1913 Webster] Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] Note: The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort. Later poets also employed it. [1913 Webster] In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne, I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. --P. Plowman. [1913 Webster]