Alliteration Definition

ə-lĭtə-rāshən

alliterations

noun

alliterations

The repetition of identical or similar sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.

American Heritage

Repetition of an initial sound, usually of a consonant or cluster, in two or more words of a phrase, line of poetry, etc. (Ex.: “What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells!”)

Webster's New World

The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.

Wiktionary

The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
head-rhyme
beginning rhyme
initial rhyme
jingle-jangle
dingdong
crambo
repetitiousness

Other Word Forms of Alliteration

Noun

Singular:

alliteration

Plural:

alliterations

Origin of Alliteration

From Latin ad (“to, towards, near”) and litera (“a letter”).

From Wiktionary
From ad– Latin littera letter

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition