Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, for instance, is fairly easy to say, but if you mix in two slightly different ...

Alliteration is all around us – you can find it in poetry, prose, advertising, song titles and lyrics. Alliteration was used as a formal structure in many Indo-European languages, known as ...

Old English poetry was sharpened and compressed accordingly. Bare of rhetorical flourish, elaborative similes, and pleasing rhymes, its oral style is instead marked by abrupt, percussive phrasing, ...

Alliteration is used in both written and spoken English. You can find examples in poetry, advertising and events commentary. It is often used in newspaper headlines to grab the reader's attention.