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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 "The School Boy":
- The distant huntsman winds his horn
- And the skylark sings with me
- But to go to school in a summer morn
- And spend many an anxious hour
- Worn thro’ with the dreary shower
- How can the bird that is born for joy
- How can the bird that is born for joy
- Sit in a cage and sing
- How can a child when fears annoy
- And blossoms blown away
- Of their joy in the springing day
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