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Alliteration: meaning and examples in English

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Alliteration repeats a starting sound in nearby words. In most learner examples, that sound is a consonant, as in bright blue boats. It depends on sound, so cat city is not alliteration: both words begin with c, but /k/ and /s/ are different.

Bright blue boats bobbed beside the bridge.
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