Relating to or of the nature of alliteration; characterized by the use of repeated beginning sounds.
From 'alliteration' plus the adjective suffix '-al,' creating a formal adjective meaning 'of or relating to alliteration.' This is the more technical, scholarly form of the simpler 'alliterative.'
In academic literary criticism, scholars prefer this more formal adjective when analyzing alliteration's role in medieval poetry and classical texts—it sounds more scholarly than 'alliterative' in technical writing!
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