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alliteration
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  • Mere alliteration, Mrs. Pearce, natural to a poet.†  (source)
  • "alliteration"—and choices of definitions.†  (source)
  • I only wish I had an excellent answer, something pithy and substantive, maybe with a little alliteration, but instead I have one that's merely short.†  (source)
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  • I don't know what this — jolly old — Jaundiced Jail,' Tom had paused to find a sufficiently complimentary and expressive name for the parental roof, and seemed to relieve his mind for a moment by the strong alliteration of this one, 'would be without you.'†  (source)
  • I would have thought that he was too drunk to recite a limerick but he sounded off endlessly, in perfect scansion with complex inner rhymes and rippling alliterations, an astounding feat of virtuosity in rhetoric.†  (source)
  • I did so purely for the sake of alliteration, Ana; and I shall make no further allusion to them.†  (source)
  • Carla Carlucci: alliteration.†  (source)
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