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Sound

Alliteration, the repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more words in a sentence, can add poetry to the ordinary. Like all repetition, it strengthens the link between words and the attention to those linked words.

Does the quaint quality of quondam make you quiver?

How can you not see first the pairing of quaint and quality and then tie them to quondam (whatever that means: but I'll bet you look it up), given the last repetition in quiver.

Fatter capital ratios, fancy risk-management systems and faster diversification: all of these things are undoubtedly creating a fitter banking system.

"Baywatch," that inane cavalcade of cavorting California hunks and babes, was initially canceled after one season on NBC, but it has gone on to be seen by more people on the planet than any other entertainment show in history.

The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye.

Like alliteration, assonance also repeats sound. But the sound is in the middle or end of words, rather than the beginning.

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