Even if you're years out of school and not actively taking an English class, it's hard not to note how we use literary and sound devices in music, art, advertising and writing. You've got "Snap, ...

From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent ...

A series of words beginning with the same consonant, used to emphasise a point or create a mood. Tongue twisters are an obvious example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Try saying that ...

The word ‘poetry’ is from the Greek term poiesis, which means ‘making’. Regardless of our race, gender, socio-economic ...

Poems are a fun way to help us think about things like plastic waste. Poets use rhyming and alliteration to catch our attention when we read or hear a poem. To dump it and hide it seems very wrong.