Alliteration

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. The recurrence of the same letters or sounds in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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