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Similies vs Alliteration - What's the difference?

similies | alliteration |

As nouns the difference between similies and alliteration

is that similies is plural of simily while alliteration is the repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.

similies

English

Noun

(head)

    • 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)