Alliteration is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALLITERATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence
• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
• The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -
• use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) —called also head rhyme, initial rhyme

Words related to ALLITERATION

alliterations13 alliterative15 alliteratively20

How to use ALLITERATION in a sentence

• And hence literature is no longer merely a thing of vocabulary, of phrase, of rhythm, of assonance, of alliteration, or of metrical and philosophical form.
• Alliteration is nearly the only effect of that kind which the ancients had in common with us.
• Like most of his poems, it is marked by artistic finish and grace, and many of the lines have a natural beauty of unsought alliteration and assonance.
• Accent, alliteration, and an abrupt break in the middle of each line gave their poetry a kind of martial rhythm.
• It is written in an elaborate stanza combining meter and alliteration.
• Some of these employed rhyme as well as alliteration.
• Hagen was therefore originally a Frank and had no connection with the Burgundian kings, as the lack of alliteration also goes to show.
• The rule for the avoidance of alliteration, rhyme, and assonance was extended to the foreign symbols, and to the two terms of a couplet.
• At the end of the third speech, metaphor had failed to move it, and alliteration had ceased to evoke applause.
• What answered to rime was a regular and marked alliteration, each couplet having a certain key-letter, with which three principal words in the couplet began.
• In this simple spell the alliteration serves rather as an aid to memory than as an ornamental device.
• The old Teutonic poetry, with its treble system of accent, alliteration, and parallelism, was wholly different from the Romance poetry, with its double system of rime and metre.
• Celtic-Latin rhyme ousted the genuine Teutonic alliteration.
• In national literatures many a passage, poetry or prose, is heightened in effect by assonance, alliteration, a certain movement or rhythm of phrase.
• So, again, was Tennyson untiring in seeking to attain ultimate perfection of phrase, consciously employing every artifice of alliteration, assonance and rime.
• Upton, in his letter concerning Spencer, observes, that alliteration is ridiculed too in Chaucer, in a passage which every reader does not understand.
• Marriage and Maria had never associated themselves in my mind, fond as I am of alliteration.
• It is interesting to trace their love of alliteration and a concord of sounds in this mongrel French, which became a new colonial language.

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