Alliteration vs Repetition - What's the difference?
alliteration | repetition |
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.
The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
(lb): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep'. A group of ' repetitions is a set.
To petition again.
* 2011 , Anneke Campbell, ?Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
As nouns the difference between alliteration and repetition
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 repetition is the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.As a verb repetition is
to petition again.alliteration
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)See also
* ("alliteration" on Wikipedia)repetition
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) repetitionem'' (accusative singular of ''repetitio ).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning , losing again and again.