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Alliteration

noun

Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. Synonyms: beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme.

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"Alliteration" Quotes from Famous Books

... poor pedestrian's unimportant impressions of places and faces; all these p's come by accident; and this I put in parenthetically just because an editor solemnly told me a while ago that he couldn't abide and wouldn't have alliteration's artful aid in his periodical. Let us leave the subject of what Miss Mitford was to those of her day who knew her; a thousand lovely personalities pass away every year and in a little while are no more remembered than the bright-plumaged ...

— Afoot in England • W.H. Hudson

Words linked to "Alliteration" : alliterate, rhyme, head rhyme, rime