different between asyndeton vs alliteration

English

Etymology

From Latin asyndeton, from Ancient Greek ????????? (asúndeton, “unconnected”).

Noun

asyndeton (countable and uncountable, plural asyndetons or asyndeta)

1. (rhetoric) A stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of words, phrases, clauses.

Hypernyms

• brachylogy

Related terms

• syndeton
• polysyndeton
• asyndetic
• syndetic

Translations

See also

• articulus

Further reading

• asyndeton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nonsteady

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (asúndeton, “unconnected”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?as?nd?ton]

Noun

asyndeton m

1. asyndeton

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (asúndeton).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?syn.de.ton/, [ä?s??n?d??t??n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?sin.de.ton/, [??s?in?d??t??n]

Noun

asyndeton n (genitive asyndet?); second declension

1. (rhetoric) asyndeton

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Synonyms

• (Pure Latin) dissol?ti?

Descendants

Adjective

asyndeton

1. inflection of asyndetos:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

References

• asyndeton in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• asyndeton in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From New Latin all?ter?ti?, from all?ter?tus, from all?ter?, from Latin ad (“to, towards, near”) and l?tera (“a letter”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??l?t???e???n/, [??l?????e???n]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

alliteration (countable and uncountable, plural alliterations)

1. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
2. The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

Related terms

• alliterational
• alliterative
• alliteratively
• alliterativeness

Translations

See also

• assonance

Further reading

• alliteration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia