alliteration
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, based
VERB + ALLITERATION
accumulate
PREP.
on, than
ADV.
aside, rather, sadly
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noun
The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.
So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past. And as an aside, that alliteration was, sadly, not mine that of a former political correspondent of the Daily Record, John Deans, and applied to the 'cod wars' with Iceland.
The recurrence of the same letters or sounds in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
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4So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past. And as an aside, that alliteration was, sadly, not mine that of a former political correspondent of the Daily Record, John Deans, and applied to
WiktionaryWe studied the Concordance to Shakespeare to accumulate examples of alliteration.
Tatoeba · #280165Old English poetry was based on alliteration rather than end rhyme.
Tatoeba · #9517301I don't like Tom Jackson's writing because of all the facile alliteration.
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