Alliteration
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

PUN
A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

4 letters

TROT
A slow pace of running

5 letters

CHIME
A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

DRONE
Stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

RHYME
A piece of poetry

CLINK
A short light metallic sound

DRONE
Stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

RHYME
A piece of poetry

CLINK
A short light metallic sound

6 letters

CRAMBO

JINGLE
A metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs"

SIMILE
A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

SPEECH
The mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"

TEDIUM
The feeling of being bored by something tedious

7 letters

HARPING

HUMDRUM
The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

8 letters

DINGDONG
Go `ding dong', like a bell

EYERHYME
An imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')

METAPHOR
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

MONOTONE
An unchanging intonation

MONOTONY
The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

SINGSONG
Speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong

9 letters

TAILRHYME

NEARRHYME

ASSONANCE
The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

HEADRHYME
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"

10 letters

BLANKVERSE
Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)

CONSONANCE
The property of sounding harmonious

RHYMEROYAL
A stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer

SLANTRHYME

11 letters

DOUBLERHYME
A two-syllable rhyme; "`ended' and `blended' form a double rhyme"

MALAPROPISM
The unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

PARONOMASIA
A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

RHYMESCHEME

SINGLERHYME

12 letters

ALLITERATION
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"

JINGLEJANGLE

PITTERPATTER

INITIALRHYME
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"

14 letters

BEGINNINGRHYME
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"

FIGUREOFSPEECH
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

REPEATEDSOUNDS

REPETITIVENESS
Verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions

UNRHYMEDPOETRY

15 letters

REPETITIOUSNESS
Verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions

STALEREPETITION

17 letters

CLINK-DRONE-RHYME

RHYMINGDICTIONARY

21 letters

UNNECESSARYREPETITION