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Alliteration vs Repitition - What's the difference?

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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.

    • Related terms

    * alliterative * alliteratively * alliterativeness

    See also

    * ("alliteration" on Wikipedia)

    repitition

    Not English

    Repitition has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'repitition':

    reputation, refutation, repetition, repudiation, reptation, repedation