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

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, ...

The Sea-Bell is a perfect example. In 1934, Tolkien published a poem in The Oxford Magazine entitled Looney. It describes a ...

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 ...

How to express yourself in English using poetry Allison Chan, ABC Education Posted 21 Mar 2017 21 Mar 2017 Tue 21 Mar 2017 at 3:53am , updated 27 Jul 2018 27 Jul 2018 Fri 27 Jul 2018 at 6:32am ...

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.

Griff Rhys Jones on why poetry is powerful and how it differs from other forms of writing. Suitable for teaching at KS3 and KS4 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 3rd and 4th Level in ...