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alliteration: a standalone construct

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Poetics

the repetition of the same initial sound, usually a consonant, in nearby stressed syllables.

In poetics, alliteration refers to the repetition of the same initial sound, usually a consonant, in nearby stressed syllables. This meaning comes from Greene (2012) in The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics.[1]

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alliterative verse1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct repetition3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Greene, R. A., Cushman, S., Cavanagh, C., Ramazani, J., & Rouzer, P. (Eds.). (2012). The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691154916

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