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alliteration

Pronunciation: /əlɪtəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/

Definition of alliteration

noun

[mass noun]

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words: the alliteration of ‘sweet birds sang’ [count noun]:alliterations are clustered in the last few lines