ALLITERATION  頭韻法

同聲母法 REPETITIO of the same initial sound in two successive words. Successive words beginning with the same sound or sounds: x... x...

Hypernym
  • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
    • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
Hyponym
  • ALLITERATION-FLIPFLOP同聲母同韻尾法 Successive words beginning with the same sound or sounds and ending with the same sound or sounds, but with different main vowels.
    • BINOME+FINAL-ALLITERATIONBINOME in which the final sound ("letter in the reconstruction") of both syllables is the same.
      REF: Lausberg 885, and 975. Hofmann and Szantyr 700-704 gives a very good survey for Latin. See Denniston, Greek Prose Style for the limit ed distribution of the phenomenon in Greek literature. Miriam 78.

      Greek/Latin: The term alliteratio is of late origin, Rutilius Lupus. The Greek term is mentioned and discussed by Martianus Capella. Cicero makes consistent but sparing use of the device in his speeches.

      Ancient Chinese: Quite common but uninvestigated in any systematic way. The subject is made treacherous by the tremendous degree of uncertainty with regard to the reconstruction of initials of syllables in pre-Buddhist Chinese. CHANG TSUNG-TUNG's German book on metaphysics in Zhuangzi provides important material towards the study of alliteration, but given the considerable uncertainties concerning the reconstruction of initials in ancient Chinese the task is not a simple one.

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