English-Finnish translations for alliteration

• alkusointu
  Kirjallisuuden lauseet "Vesille venosen mieli." "Virta vehnettä vie. sisältävät alkusoinnun.
• alliteraatio

Definition of alliteration

• The repetition of consonant sounds 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 words

• alliterate
• alliterative
• alliteratively