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Question
Choose the most appropriate option for the following question.
What is meant by ‘Alliteration’?
Options
Act of literary modification.
Acts of an environmentally conscious person.
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Words that sound alike but have different meanings.
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Solution
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
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