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alliteration

Alliteration is a grammatical term meaning two or more words in a row starting with the same sounds. (noun)

An example of alliteration is to write, “...winds whipping wildly.”

See alliteration in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

repetition of an initial sound, usually of a consonant or cluster, in two or more words of a phrase, line of poetry, etc. (Ex.: “What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells!”)

See alliteration in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(ə-lĭtˌə-rāˈshən)

noun

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in “on scrolls of silver snowy sentences” (Hart Crane). Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.

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