Alliteration : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Alliteration	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
alliteration n use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran" Synonym(s): alliteration, initial rhyme, beginning rhyme, head rhyme
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Alliteration \Allit`era"tion\, n. [L. ad + litera letter. See {Letter}.] 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: Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. --Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. --Tennyson. Note: The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort. Later poets also employed it. In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne, I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. --P. Plowman.