Associations to the word «Alliteration»

Wiktionary

ALLITERATION, noun. The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
ALLITERATION, noun. The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

Dictionary definition

ALLITERATION, noun. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats