Alliteration is a literary device that can be used to make a text sound more poetic. Unlike rhymes that modern audiences are more familiar with, where the sounds at the ends of the words are the same, alliteration is when the sounds at the beginning of the words are the same. This was used often in ancient epic poems like Beowulf, instead of an end rhyme. An example of alliteration would be something like black bunnies burrow in the bleak...
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