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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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: Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. --Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. --Tennyson. 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 In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne, I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were --P. Plowman. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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