Alliteration

“Alliteration is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby words. Usually the term is applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent sound is made emphatic because it begins a word or a stressed syllable in a word.” (Abrams & Harpham 201210: 10, s.v. alliteration)

Careful: the definition behind alliteration as a specific feature of Old English alliterative verse is slightly different from the one given above.

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