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Choose the option which descibes the closest meaning for the expression given. Commencement of words with the same letter:

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Choose the option which descibes the closest meaning for the expression given. Commencement of words with the same letter:

A).  Pun

B).  Transferred epithet

C).  Transferred epithet

D).  Oxymoron


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 Alliteration



The one word-substitution is Alliteration.

Pun: A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
Transferred epithet: A transferred epithet often involves shifting a modifier from the animate to the inanimate, as in the phrases.
Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
Alliteration: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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