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What does alliteration mean?

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Noun
  1. The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
  2. The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
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Lincoln fell in love with metaphors and cadences, assonance and alliteration.
So, too, do children love the rhyming, chanting, and alliteration of nursery rhymes.
Hopefully, no unsuspecting schoolchild will be expected to read the report out loud as it is a hotbed of alliteration and tongue-twisters.
Indeed, the use of alliteration in Old English poetry and in Piers Ploughman might also have influenced his poetic style.
His articles and alliteration were immensely popular with the working class and Truth's circulation skyrocketed.
Storybooks containing alliteration provide opportunities for children to hear words that have the same beginning sounds.

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