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Teachers do their children a disservice when they misuse alliteration to try to create excitement in the form of 'stunning starts' and 'fantastic finishes'
I have a vague recollection from middle school of writing an acrostic poem: where the first letters of each line spell out a word or phrase. It's always struck me as a strange sort of poetic form, but I guess it's relatively easy to get right, so long as you can spell the main word. From the same period, I remember alliterative poetry. It can't be the case that all we did in middle school was write poems, but alliteration we definitely did.
These days, I try to avoid teaching alliteration at all. Not because it has no use, but because it's so easy to misuse. It is often employed in persuasive techniques, but I think it's fair to say few of us would be convinced to buy a schoolbag just because it is described...