Alliteration

Mark Forsyth says alliteration makes things memorable, even if it’s nonsense, like, “A miss is as good as a mile.”1

  1. The Elements of Eloquence pg. 13 ↩

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Figures of rhetoric
Figures of rhetoric [[Different types of repetition]] [[Alliteration]] [[Antithesis]] [[Merism]] [[Hendiadys]] [[Synaesthesia]] [[Tricolon]]
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