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

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire