alliteration
/əlɪtəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/
US pronunciation
American sound/əlɪtəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/
əlɪtəˈreɪʃən
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- 4th syllable stress
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- Final -tion sounds like shun
əlɪtə - ˈreɪʃən -> alliteration
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
alliteration /ǝ'lÇtǝ'reÇʃn/ n [U]
သံတူအစအက္ခရာပါ ပုဒ်တို့ဖြင့် စကားရပ်ဖွဲ့စပ်ခြင်း။ သာဓက—‘sing a song of sixpence ’, ‘as thick as thieves. ’ alliterative /ǝ'lÇtrǝtÇv; US ǝ'lÇtǝreÇtÇv/ adj
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- alliteration /ǝ ' lÇtǝ'reÇʃn/ n [U] သံတူအစအက္ခရာပါ ပုဒ်တို့ဖြင့် စကားရပ်ဖွဲ့စပ်ခြင်း။ သာဓက—‘sing a song of sixpence ’, ‘as thick as thieves. ’ alliterative /ǝ'lÇtrǝtÇv; US ǝ'lÇtǝreÇtÇv/ adj
Synonyms
adumbration, allegory, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, assonance, asyndeton, bathos, beat, broken record, cadence, chant, chorus, communication that is not meant literally; stylist, comparison, conceit, consonance, copy, couplet, device, doggerel, echo, echoism, ellipsis, encore, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, half-rhyme, harmony, hyperbole, iambic pentameter, image, imagery, ingemination, irony, iteracy, iterance, iteration, litany, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, measure, metaphor, meter, metonymy, nursery rhyme, ode, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, paraphrase, periodicity, perseveration, personification, poem, poesy, poetry, practice, proteron, reappearance, recapitulation, recital, recurrence, redundancy, rehearsal, reiteration, relation, renewal, reoccurrence, repeat, repetitiousness, replication, report, reproduction, resonance, restatement, return, rhetoric, rhythm, rote, rune, sarcasm, satire, simile, slant rhyme, song, sound pattern, sound repetition, staccato, synecdoche, tautology, trope, tropology, tune, turn of phrase, understatement, verse, vowel-chime, way of speaking
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