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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King