Alliteration

Alliteration is the name given to a part of speech in the English language,

whereby several words all start with one particular letter.

This is common in so-called Tongue Twisters, of which there are

a couple of examples in the list below.

The phrase Tongue Twister itself is of course alliterative:

Examples of Alliteration

  • (Stuttering) rifles' rapid rattle - (Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum est)
  • Peter Piper picked (a) peck (of) pickled peppers. (Tongue twister)
  • She sells seashells (by the) sea shore. (Tongue twister)
  • Behemoth, biggest born (of earth)... (Milton)
  • Better brave than bored
  • Train the toughest, talk the tiniest