4.9 Special Effects and Patterns for Poems

Alliteration

Can you recall the definition of alliteration by looking at the underlined hints in the stanza below?

There is no clutter cluttered up
more closely, I presume,
than the clutter clustered clingingly
in my friend, Betty's room.

(from the poem "Betty's Room" in A Little Bit of Nonsense by Denise Rodgers)

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