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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 "Macavity: The Mystery Cat":
- Macavity’s a Mystery Cat,
- For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law
- For when they reach the scene of crime — Macavity’s not there!
- He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
- His head is highly domed
- He sways his head
- He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake
- And when you think he’s half asleep, he’s always wide awake.
- And when you think he’s half asleep, he’s always wide awake.
- And when you think he’s half asleep, he’s always wide awake.
- For he’s a fiend in feline shape.
- You may meet him in a by-street
- You may see him in the square
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