Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.

synonyms: beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme.

Roget 17: similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement etc. 23; analogy, analogicalness^†; correspondence, homoiousia^†, parity.    connaturalness^†, connaturality^†; brotherhood, family likeness.    alliteration, rhyme, pun.    repetition etc. 104; sameness etc. (identity) 13; uniformity etc. 16; isogamy^†.    analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum [Lat.], Arcades ambo^†, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne [Lat.]; gens de meme famille [Fr.].    parallel; simile; type etc. (metaphor) 521; image etc. (representation) 554; photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance.    ... show more

Roget 577: ornament; floridness c^†.    adj.. turgidity, turgescence^†; altiloquence etc. adj.^†; declamation, teratology^†; well-rounded periods; elegance etc. 578; orotundity.    inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness etc. (metaphor) 521.    flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism^†, euphemism.    big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology^†, sesquipedalia verba [Lat.], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality^†; Minerva press.    phrasemonger; euphuist^†, euphemist.    ... show more

Dutch: Germaanse rijm, letterrijm, stafrijm, alliteratie
Polish: aliteracja