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I am going to tell you how to enhance your English with alliteration, in speech titles, and speeches, book titles and business names, and use alliteration it to remember the names of people you meet.
One of my favourite book titles is: Feel The Fear But Do It Anyway. A perfect example of alliteration.
Maybe I should rename my book - Excellent English. Or, Enhance Your English.
Alphabetic Alliteration
What I have done in my book is work through the alphabet. After writing the book, I can now instantly come up with alliteration. If you read it you will probably find you can do the same.
I started with adjectives. Beautiful bedrooms. Crammed kitchens, kitchen cupboards filled with fancy forks and wonderful wastebins.
Then I added days of the week. For example, Funny Friday.
Then I added people's names, Angelic Angela. And a few famous stars name such as Marilyn Monroe.
I found some book titles such as Famous Five by Enid Blyton.
Famous and well known proverbs provided more examples. Look before you leap.
Poems with alliteration
I have been reciting nursery rhymes to my tiny toddler grandchild to encourage her to start speaking. I remember when I was at school how I was impressed by poems. I never thought that one day I would be able to write comic poems. Nowadays I produce poems daily on my blog, comical poems with Hazel Nutter. I aim for at least two rhymes in a verse. I like a minimum of three verses in a ballad or sonnet.
Alliteration For Speakers and Toastmasters (Masters of Ceremony, MC)
When I first joined Toastmasters I was impressed by the way the toastmasters of the day, or the president or the SAA opened the meeting with an alliterative greeting. I had passed O level English, and A level English, but I was nowhere near this seemingly effortless use of alliteration.
I had worked as a copywriter. It took me all day to find an alliterative title for a feature article I was editing.
I was also impressed by the way the songwriters could write songs. Then I discovered rhyming dictionaries. If you are a paid songwriter or copyriter you might spend all day doing this. But rap singers seem to come up with alliteration and rhymes instantly. How do they do it? By thinking about it all day every day, even when standing at a bus stop.
I am waiting for a bus
I've been waiting bloody hours
Long enough to wilt my flowers
But I do no make a fuss.
I never moan or cus.
It's only just a bus.
Hello, here is my bus
A beautiful big bus
I smile at the bus driver
He and I are both survivors
Facing traffic, facing rain
Every day is just the same
Don't waste time in complaining
Just do it all again.
The best passengers say, 'Thank you
Driver!' You would not believe
How many wave and smile
At the driver as they leave.
I just came up with that.
You could do it too. Read my book. Read it aloud. When you shut it, remember the rhymes and alliteration.
Today I looked back at my own book to help myself write a blog post in my blog on dress of the day with Angela. I had a post about pink broderie anglaise. My alliteration book has a list of alliteration at the front on all the colours. So there I had a choice of pastel. pink, perfect pink, pretty pin, princess pink. pink fit for a princess. Quite enough to effortlessly write a title for two blog posts. I also had beautiful broderie anglaise. And eye-catching eyelets. The latter just came to me. Because now that I have completed writing the book, just a dip into it revives it like a foreign language, so that alliteration comes up automatically. I am reciting nursery rhymes to my grandchild to encourage her to start talking.
When I started school
, I doubted whether I would have enough alliterations to fill the minimum of 32 pages which you need for a book which has a spine.
My original title was alliteration. I went to a talk on marketing. The speaker asked people in the audience to ask questions. I asked what title I should use for a book on alliteration.
He asked the audience, how many of you want a book on alliteration. Only a couple of hands went up. He asked me why do they need this book. I answered, to improve their English. He asked, hands up if you want to improve your English. Everybody in the room raised their hand. There's your title he said. So the title is Improve your English, add alliteration, assonance and rhyme.I told somebody I had written a book on alliteration.
If you want to buy my book it costs 20 pounds for the hardback, , because it is a big thick book. It is 250 pages. The printing alone is about ten pounds. Add in marketing, payment to me, payment to amazon, and so on. Plus postage. If you buy a copy I shall sign it for you and give you an alliteration with your name, such as wonderful Warren. Or Happy Jesus.
It costs less, fifteen pounds twenty pence for the Kindle edition
If you want to look at the book, but are not yet convinced that you must spend that much on it, you can get a free look at it on amazon, which offers the Look Inside. Wishing you terriific toastmasters, a lovely look at my beautiful book, Improve your English by Angela Lansbury.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Improve-Your-English-alliteration-assonance-ebook/dp/B082PZXQLQ
When I first joined Toastmasters I was impressed by the way the toastmasters of the day, or the president or the SAA opened the meeting with an alliterative greeting. I had passed O level English, and A level English, but I was nowhere near this seemingly effortless use of alliteration.
I had worked as a copywriter. It took me all day to find an alliterative title for a feature article I was editing.
Today I looked back at my own book to help myself write a blog post in my blog on dress of the day with Angela. I had a post about pink broderie anglaise. My alliteration book has a list of alliteration at the front on all the colours. So there I had a choice of pastel. pink, perfect pink, pretty pin, princess pink. pink fit for a princess. Quite enough to effortlessly write a title for two blog posts. I also had beautiful broderie anglaise. And eye-catching eyelets. The latter just came to me. Because now that I have completed writing the book, just a dip into it revives it like a foreign language, so that alliteration comes up automatically.
When I started, I doubted whether I would have enough alliterations to fill the minimum of 32 pages which you need for a book which has a spine.
My original title was alliteration. I went to a talk on marketing. The speaker asked people in the audience to ask questions. I asked what title I should use for a book on alliteration.
He asked the audience, how many of you want a book on alliteration. Only a couple of hands went up. He asked me why do they need this book. I answered, to improve their English. He asked, hands up if you want to improve your English. Everybody in the room raised their hand. There's your title he said. So the title is Improve your English, add alliteration, assonance and rhyme.I told somebody I had written a book on alliteration.
If you want to buy my book it costs 20 pounds for the hardback, , because it is a big thick book. It is 250 pages. The printing alone is about ten pounds. Add in marketing, payment to me, payment to amazon, and so on. Plus postage. If you buy a copy I shall sign it for you and give you an alliteration with your name, such as wonderful Warren. Or Happy Jesus.
It costs less, fifteen pounds twenty pence for the Kindle edition
If you want to look at the book, but are not yet convinced that you must spend that much on it, you can get a free look at it on amazon, which offers the Look Inside. Wishing you terriific toastmasters, a lovely look at my beautiful book, Improve your English by Angela Lansbury.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Improve-Your-English-alliteration-assonance-ebook/dp/B082PZXQLQ
