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Initial repetition (12)

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alliteration

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'initial repetition' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'initial repetition' is the wordplay.
'initial' becomes 'all' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'repetition' becomes 'iteration' (iteration is a kind of repetition).
'all'+'iteration'='ALLITERATION'

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(Other definitions for alliteration that I've seen before include "Peter practised poetic ploy perfectly" , "Successive starts sounding similarly" , "verse technique" , "Poetic rhyming device using words with the same initial letter" , "Repeated first letters" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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