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Al*lit`er*a"tion (&unr_;), 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: -
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Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
His vastness. Milton.
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Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.
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&hand_; 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.
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In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. P. Plowman.
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