Alliteration is where words that start with the same consonant sound are next to each other or close by in a sentence or phrase, e.g. crows crash the crib. Alliteration sounds very pleasing to the ear.
Poet and writer Amy Ludwig VanDerwater says that she likes to see if in the editing process she can slip in a little alliteration to her poems. You might like to see if a little bit of alliteration could improve the sound of your poetry or writing.
Can you say these tongue twisters 3x quickly? Can you create your own tricky alliteration tongue twisters?
A little glorious glumptious giggle as you learn about alliteration.
Breaking down the definition of alliteration and showing some examples.