alliteration means the repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.
Why this word is great
ALLITERATION — [Noun] The conspicuous repetition of the same initial consonant sound or letter in closely connected or successive words. From New Latin allīterātiō, from Latin ad ("to, towards") and lītera ("letter"). Unlike assonance, which murmurs with interior vowel echoes, or consonance, which plants its repetitive sounds anywhere within a word's terrain, alliteration is a percussive foregrounding, a deliberate striking at the gateway of speech. It is the crisp crackle of “kindling catching,” the weary whisper of “world-weary wants,” and the slick, sinister hiss of a “sly, slithering snake.” A sonic stitching that binds words by force of mouth, this small, human-made music is a defiant ordering of air against the world’s formless drone.
noun
- The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.“So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past. And as an aside, that alliteration was, sadly, not mine that of a former political correspondent of the Daily Record, John Deans, and applied to the 'cod wars' with Iceland.”
- The recurrence of the same letters or sounds in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.