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Alliteration is the occurrence of the same sound at the starting of two or more words in a single line in a poem.
- The slender smiling girl.
- The song of sweet birds.
- Black bug bit a bear.
- Practise the piano.
- Feel the phone on your face.
- Dandelion whose fuzzy head.
What are the uses of alliteration?
1. It creates a rhythm, similar to rhyming words.
2. It emphasizes the importance of phrases.
3. Mostly used in tongue-twisters.
1. It creates a rhythm, similar to rhyming words.
2. It emphasizes the importance of phrases.
3. Mostly used in tongue-twisters.
Alliteration used in the poem "Whatif":
- Last night, while I lay thinking here.
- And pranced and partied all night long.
- And sang their same old Whatif song:
- Whatif they’ve closed the swimming-pool?
- Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
- Whatif my head starts getting smaller?
- Whatif the fish won’t bite?
- Whatif the wind tears up my kite?
- Whatif they start a war?
- Everything seems swell
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