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Alliteration vs Palindrome - What's the difference?

alliteration | palindrome |

As nouns the difference between alliteration and palindrome

is that alliteration is the repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals while palindrome is a word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.

alliteration

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
  • The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
  • palindrome

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
  • Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes .
  • A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
  • Rise to vote sir'' is an example of a sentence that is a palindrome .
  • (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
  • Derived terms

    * (genetics) massive palindrome

    See also

    * palindromicable * * * aibohphobia * anagram * semordnilap ----