origin
/ˈɒɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/noun
Middle School
1
The beginning of something.
2
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
3
The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
4
The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
5
An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
6
Ancestry.
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Alliteration
Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)
Assonance
Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing