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alliteration 音標拼音: [əl'ɪtɚ ,eʃən] n. 頭韻 頭韻 alliteration n 1: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; " around the rock the ragged rascal ran" [ synonym: { alliteration}, { initial rhyme}, { beginning rhyme}, { head rhyme}] Alliteration \ Al* lit` er* a" tion\, n. [ L. ad litera letter. See { Letter}.] 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: [ 1913 Webster] Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Fly o' er waste fens and windy fields. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne, I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. -- P. Plowman. [ 1913 Webster] 36 Moby Thesaurus words for " alliteration": assonance, blank verse, chime, clink, consonance, crambo, dingdong, double rhyme, drone, eye rhyme, harping, humdrum, jingle, jingle- jangle, monotone, monotony, near rhyme, paronomasia, pitter- patter, pun, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhyming dictionary, single rhyme, singsong, slant rhyme, stale repetition, tail rhyme, tedium, trot, unnecessary repetition, unrhymed poetry |
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