ABSTRACT
Alliteration refresher Alliteration is a common linguistic/literary device that, along with assonance and
onomatopoeia, composes the ‘sonic three’ techniques that pupils are encouraged
to use in their work – poetry and prose. Rather than going over old ground now
I’ll just make a few brief points that you might find useful:
There is a difference between alliteration and ‘consonance’. Alliteration is the
repetition of initial consonant sounds (brown bears bother badgers boisterously), while consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds within words (rotten bottles shatter rattles).
