alliteration

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ALLITERA'TION, noun [Latin ad and litera, a letter.] The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as f and g in the following line: Fields ever fresh, and groves forever green.
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