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

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