What does "alliteration" mean?

`n.` 头韵是指在一段文字中，多个单词的首字母或音节相同的修辞手法。

How do you pronounce "alliteration"?

The pronunciation is /əlɪtə'reɪʃ(ə)n/. Listen to American and British pronunciations on this page.

`n.` 头韵 是指在一段文字中，多个单词的首字母或音节相同的修辞手法。

[US]/əlɪtə'reɪʃ(ə)n/

[UK]/ə,lɪtə'reʃən/

Frequency: Very High

n. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words within a phrase or sentence

Languages are endowed with the aesthetics of rhymes, which can be chiefly divided into alliteration, assonance, rhyme and echoism.

Languages are endowed with the aesthetics of rhymes, which can be chiefly divided into alliteration, assonance, rhyme and echoism.

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