An-nŏm'i-nā'tion, n.

n. [Lat. annominatio, agnominatio, from ad and nominatio, from nominare, to name; nomen, a name.]

1. A pun; the use of words nearly alike in sound, but of different meanings; a paronomasia. Encyc.
2. The use of two or more words successively beginning with the same letter, or in which the same letter recurs; alliteration. Tyrwhitt.