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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 "I am Every Woman":
- A symbol of power and strength
- Strong is she in her faith and beliefs
- The summer of life she's ready to see in spring.
- She says, "Spring will come again, my dear.
- She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief!
- Don't ever try to
- Saw her pride, her self-respect.
- Saw you – so beware!
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