alliteration
noun
- a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˌlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/ / [əˌlɪɾəˈɹeɪʃən]
noun
Etymology: From New Latin allīterātiō, from allīterātus, from allīterō, from Latin ad (“to, towards, near”) and lītera (“a letter”).
- 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.