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alliteration

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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
  Alliteration \Al*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. ad + litera letter. See
     Letter.]
     The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or
     more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short
     intervals; as in the following lines: 
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           Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
           His vastness.                            --Milton.
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           Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.    --Tennyson.
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     Note: The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of
           words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry
           is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort.
           Later poets also employed it.
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                 In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
                 I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. --P.
                                                    Plowman.
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