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Old 06-06-2003, 11:54 AM   #20
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A few comments on alliteration, with props to burrahobbit for bringing it to our attention.

alliteration: The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in “on scrolls of silver snowy sentences” (Hart Crane). Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.

The repetition is the sound, not the letter, so 'only one' is not alliteration.

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