Direction: In the following questions out of the four alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.
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Commencement of adjacent words with the same letter
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- pun
- alliteration
- transferred epithet
- oxymoron
Correct Option: B
alliteration alliteration (N.) : the use of the same letter/sound at the beginning of words that are close together
pun (N.) : the clever or humorous use of a word that has more than one meaning, or of words that have different meanings but sound the same
transferred
epithet (N.) : the reversal of the usual relationship between two words
oxymoron (N.) : a phrase that combines two words that seem to be the opposite of each other
