Figuring Out Figurative Language: Alliteration

Students having trouble figuring out figurative language?

Try an alliteration song. Music will make brains light up as the memories are stored all over the brain. The repetition needed to master the words will make even stronger memories.

Glory, Glory, How Peculiar (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
(The chorus of this camp song has been adapted by me to reinforce the idea of alliteration.)

When one blue bug bled blue-black blood,
The other blue bug bled black.
When one blue bug bled blue-black blood,
The other blue bug bled black.
When one blue bug bled blue-black blood,
The other blue bug bled black.
When one blue bug bled blue-black blood,
The other blue bug bled black.

This is alliteration.
This is alliteration.
This is alliteration.
It's simply using a single sound several times in a phrase.