| 单词 | alliteration |
| 释义 | alliteration (once / 11543 pages) n Alliteration is when you use words that have the same sound at the beginning, like "Stellar students synthesize sweet sentences." It's a time-honored poetic device to make a string of words start with the same consonant sound, and that is what alliteration labels. For example, in A Midsummer's Night Dream, Shakespeare broke out the B's: "With bloody blameful blade he bravely broached his bloody boiling breast." And in the song "From A to G" by Blackalicious, a verse with words beginning with the "C" sound describes a "crazy character, constantly creating concoctions." WORD FAMILYalliteration: alliterations+/alliterate: alliterated, alliterates, alliterating, alliteration, alliterative/alliterative: alliteratively USAGE EXAMPLESDays under the lash of the wind inevitably unleashed alliteration here. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) Over time, corporate naming has developed certain conventions: alliteration and vowel repetition are good. The New Yorker(Nov 06, 2016) She said the Americans had called her Hanoi Hannah for a simple reason: alliteration. New York Times(Oct 04, 2016) n use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse Syn|Hyper beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme rhyme, rime correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) |
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