Antonyms for alliteration
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-lit-uh-rey-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˌlɪt əˈreɪ ʃən |
Definition of alliteration
Origin :- 1650s, "a begining with the same letter," from Modern Latin alliterationem (nominative alliteratio), noun of action from past participle stem of alliterare "to begin with the same letter," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + littera (also litera) "letter, script" (see letter). Formed on model of obliteration, etc. Related: Alliterational.
- As in repetition : noun duplication; doing again
- As in rhyme : noun poetry in which lines end with like sounds
- As in figure of speech : noun turn of expression
- Nikita, surnamed Necator, with a sinister aptness of alliteration!
- Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
- The "Cape to Cairo" railroad is another case of alliteration.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- Alliteration and rhyme together will, I am afraid, be too much for me.
- Extract from : « Lavengro » by George Borrow
- The alliteration is without complexity,--a dreary procession of sibilants.
- Extract from : « Milton » by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
- Consonance is very similar to this latter form of alliteration.
- Extract from : « The Principles of English Versification » by Paull Franklin Baum
- Alliteration is nearly the only effect of that kind which the ancients had in common with us.
- Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
- English poetry has used chiefly rhyme, stress, and alliteration.
- Extract from : « A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems » by Various
- Alliteration in relation to the parts of speech and to the order the order of words.
- Extract from : « A History of English Versification » by Jakob Schipper
- Unintentional or accidental combination of rhyme and alliteration.
- Extract from : « A History of English Versification » by Jakob Schipper
- Perhaps this name is only introduced for the sake of alliteration.
- Extract from : « The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume II of II » by William Langland
Synonyms for alliteration
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- beat
- broken record
- cadence
- chant
- chorus
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- copy
- couplet
- device
- doggerel
- echo
- echoism
- ellipsis
- encore
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- half-rhyme
- harmony
- hyperbole
- iambic pentameter
- image
- imagery
- ingemination
- irony
- iteracy
- iterance
- iteration
- litany
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- measure
- metaphor
- meter
- metonymy
- nursery rhyme
- ode
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- paraphrase
- periodicity
- perseveration
- personification
- poem
- poesy
- poetry
- practice
- proteron
- reappearance
- recapitulation
- recital
- recurrence
- redundancy
- rehearsal
- reiteration
- relation
- renewal
- reoccurrence
- repeat
- repetitiousness
- replication
- report
- reproduction
- restatement
- return
- rhetoric
- rhythm
- rote
- rune
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- slant rhyme
- song
- staccato
- synecdoche
- tautology
- trope
- tropology
- tune
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- verse
- vowel-chime
- way of speaking
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