| 单词 | alliteration |
| 释义 | alliteration noun[U] literaturespecializeduk/əˌlɪt.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us/əˌlɪt̬.əˈreɪ.ʃən/the use,especiallyinpoetry, of the samesoundorsounds,especiallyconsonants, at thebeginningof several words that areclosetogether: 头韵（尤指诗歌中一组词以发音相同的辅音开头）"Round theruggedrockstheraggedrascalran" uses alliteration.Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran uses alliteration（衣衫褴褛的流氓绕着嶙峋的岩石跑）这个英语句子采用了头韵修辞法。 Compare assonancespecialized alliteration| American Dictionaryalliteration noun[U] us/ə·lɪt̬·əˈreɪ·ʃən/English therepetitionofconsonantsat thebeginningof two or more words, as in "liveandlearn" Examplesofalliterationalliteration They indicate that the versifier avoided breaking more than one rule at once: verses without thealliterationalso lack multiple metrical-grammatical requirements for it. From theCambridge English Corpus Where this choice is not influenced byalliteration, each term may have been intended to convey a specific image appropriate to its immediate context. From theCambridge English Corpus The final three chapters address the issue of clusteralliteration, with chapter 6 the high point of the entire book. From theCambridge English Corpus Indeed, many of her innovations are both brilliant and thoroughly convincing: her accounts of clusteralliterationand vocalicalliterationare particularly fine. From theCambridge English Corpus The usual assumption, it seems, has been thatalliterationof the different velars has simply been a matter of poetic convention. From theCambridge English Corpus It appears that ornamentalalliterationhas here been made ancillary to the functional, the unnecessary rhetorically reinforcing the necessary. From theCambridge English Corpus Two exceptions have patterns of sound perhaps analogous to doublealliterationwhich may have sanctioned them. From theCambridge English Corpus The rhetoricians generally distinguish between figures of sense, such as metaphor, and figures of sound, such asalliteration, but the distinction is rarely sharp. From theCambridge English Corpus Thealliterationtask was presented on a day after the rhyme matching task and took the same form (two blocks of 8 trials). From theCambridge English Corpus Ten verses are aberrant in regard to metre and/oralliteration. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, performance levels should be very similar when the phonological similarity of foils and targets is equated in rhyme andalliterationtasks. From theCambridge English Corpus And ad-makers have a special fondness for rhyme andalliterationand make free use of clichés. From theCambridge English Corpus Second, both rhyme andalliterationmatching tasks were used in order to compare the two tasks directly. From theCambridge English Corpus Interestingly, children were confused by globally matched stimuli in thealliterationtask but not by distractors that were matched for both phonological and semantic similarity. From theCambridge English Corpus A greater number of children performed above chance on the rhyme task than on thealliterationtask. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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