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Oxymora vs Alliteration - What's the difference?

oxymora | alliteration |

As nouns the difference between oxymora and alliteration

is that oxymora is alternative while alliteration is alliteration.

oxymora

English

Noun

(head)
  • Alternative
    • ----

    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)