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Alliterative   /əlˈɪtərətɪv/  /əlˈɪtərˌeɪtɪv/   Listen
Alliterative

adjective
1.
Having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable.





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"Alliterative" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the fourteenth century, are in alliterative verse; under Elizabeth alliteration became one of the peculiarities of the florid prose called Euphuism. Nearer to our own time, Byron makes ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... art may be neglected by the powerful, it is still in greater danger from the mistaken efforts of the learned to improve it. What criticisms have we not heard of late in favour of blank verse, and Pindaric odes, choruses, anapaests and iambics, alliterative care and happy negligence! Every absurdity has now a champion to defend it; and as he is generally much in the wrong, so he has always much to say; for ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith • Oliver Goldsmith


Words linked to "Alliterative" :   rhyming, rhymed, riming, alliterate


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