Alliteration vs. Repetition
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Difference Between Alliteration and Repetition
Alliterationnoun
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
Repetitionnoun
The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
Alliterationnoun
The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
Repetitionnoun
(weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.
Alliterationnoun
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse;
around the rock the ragged rascal ranRepetitionverb
To petition again.
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Repetitionnoun
an event that repeats;
the events today were a repeat of yesterday'sRepetitionnoun
the act of doing or performing again
Repetitionnoun
the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
