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noun Alliteration n. 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." "Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields." 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."
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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