Alliteration vs Palindrome - What's the difference?
alliteration | palindrome |
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.
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.
A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
(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
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
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)See also
* ("alliteration" on Wikipedia)palindrome
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(wikipedia palindrome)Noun
(en noun)- Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes .
- Rise to vote sir'' is an example of a sentence that is a palindrome .