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Asyndeton vs Alliteration - What's the difference?

asyndeton | alliteration |

As nouns the difference between asyndeton and alliteration

is that asyndeton is (rhetoric) a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of words, phrases, clauses while alliteration is alliteration.

asyndeton

English

Noun

(asyndeton) (en-noun)
  • (rhetoric) A stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of words, phrases, clauses.

    • Hypernyms

    *

    Related terms

    * * * *

    See also

    *

    External links

    * (wikipedia "asyndeton") ----

    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)