Vocalic-alliteration
noun
1.
See under alliteration (def 1).
alliteration
[uh-lit-uh-rey-shuh n] /əˌlɪt əˈreɪ ʃən/
noun
1.
the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration) as in each to all.
Compare consonance (def 4a).
2.
the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration’s artful aid.
alliteration
/əˌlɪtəˈreɪʃən/
noun
1.
the use of the same consonant (consonantal alliteration) or of a vowel, not necessarily the same vowel (vocalic alliteration), at the beginning of each word or each stressed syllable in a line of verse, as in around the rock the ragged rascal ran
alliteration [(uh-lit-uh-ray-shuhn)]
The repetition of the beginning sounds of words, as in “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” “long-lived,” “short shrift,” and “the fickle finger of fate.”
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