Last updated April 15, 2026
Interjections are abrupt exclamations, and alliterations are sentences where every word starts with the same letter. Tautograms are similar, but with exceptions.
Interjections are used in informal speech and have no place in academic writing, while tautograms, which include alliterations, can provide the ability to write outlandish and bizarre sentences.
These are abrupt, emphatic exclamations. These words have no grammatical meaning, yet they are perfectly understood. Later, I’ll show you how to write grammatically correct sentences with interjections.
These are sentences where every word starts with the same letter and consonant sound.
I’ll show you below what crazy thoughts I came up with while attempting to write sentences using alliteration. After reviewing the examples below, you can try it yourself and have fun with it.
The word comes from Greek: tauto gramma, meaning “same letter.” They are sentences in which all words start with the same letter.
Both alliterations and tautograms are sentences where each word starts with the same letter. However, the difference is that to be an alliteration, the first letter needs to sound the same, repeating the consonant sound (as with “cut cat”).
On the other hand, sentences with words beginning with the same letter but that don’t sound similar are still tautograms but not alliterations (such as a pneumatic plate).
| aah! | Fright or shock |
| bah | Displaying annoyance |
| boo | Disapproval |
| eek | Surprised, scared |
| eh | Express “Who cares!” |
| eh? | Ask for repetition |
| eww | Distaste |
| grrr | Anger |
| haha | Laughter |
| hmm | Signify “That’s interesting” |
| huh | Surprise, something found interesting |
| huh? | Asking for confirmation |
| mmm | Feeling something is lovely |
| oh | Realization or Amazement |
| ooh-la-la | Indicating something is high class |
| oomph | Strength, power, or passion |
| oops | Made a mistake |
| ow | Pain or discomfort |
| sheesh | Exasperation |
| tsk-tsk | Sign of disappointment |
| uh-huh | Ackownledgement, confirmation |
| uh-oh | Indicate concern |
| uhh | Pause in speech |
| uhmm | Pause in speech |
| whoa | Convey “Unbelievable” |
| wow | Proclaim “Amazing” |
| yuck | Express distaste or disgust |
It’s challenging to grasp the concept of idiomatic statements while learning a new language. However, when students learn English as a second language and suddenly hear interjections, that can definitely confuse them.
Even people fluent in English may struggle to understand some colloquial expressions or the meaning of certain interjections.
Huh? You don’t know what I mean?
Argh. Are you asking me to explain this? Sheesh. Okay, I will.
I’m sure you already noticed what I’m doing. I don’t normally speak this way.
In English, it seems to be totally acceptable to throw in an interjection here or there when appropriate. They add some ambiance and realism to the story. Eh. That’s my opinion, anyway.
Aha! I know what you’re thinking. You’re sitting there right now saying, “Eh, who cares?”
You see, grammatical meaning comes from the proper order of words in a sentence. Words by themselves are meaningless. Well, not really. There can very well be sentences that have just one word. Right? Sure! See?
But what I’m getting at, is throwing in some interjections along the way, words that have no meaning, grammatically or otherwise. And yet they make perfect sense when used in the proper place in a sentence.
Ah, that makes sense. Hmm. I thought I explained that quite well. Don’t you agree? And, oh, I’m already using a bunch of interjections.
Uh-huh. I barely got started. But sheesh, please don’t boo me. Ow, that can hurt. You don’t really need to read this if you don’t want to. If you’re reading along just to see me make an ass of myself, then tsk-tsk.
So what do you say? Are you getting anything useful out of this? I guess you need to read between the lines to get what I’m up to. I’m really not teaching you anything or explaining anything other than using a bunch of examples. It’s just the usage of these silly little interjections that keeps me going.
And you? Why are you still here? Aw, you actually find this amusing.
Ooh-la-la! I guess I really got your attention! And all I’m doing is using a bunch of interjections in almost everything I say. Aw. I’m glad you’re with me on this.
Uhh, I really don’t know what else to say. Uh-oh, I’m afraid I may not be able to keep this up.
Grrr, it’s not easy to dream up things to say without saying something at all. Ah, but I am. I’m giving you examples of using interjections. Am I not succeeding at it? Gee, who knows? I’ll leave it up to you to decide.
Yuck. What a mess. I started off really well. I made my point, and now what? Bleh. I’m running out of things to say just to keep using interjections for no good reason at all.
Will this even get a decent ranking from Google? Bah. Who cares?
I’m just doing this for the enjoyment of it anyway. Huh. I probably will decide not to publish this, unless I feel it has some educational value for you. You be the judge.
Eww, you’d be upset with me if I kept it all to myself? Uh-oh. I have to put a lot of oomph into it to make it worthwhile.
Mmm. I may as well share it with you.
Oops. I almost forgot to proofread this stuff. Ay yai yai.
Eek! I surprised myself! Whoa! I actually made it this far. Wow! And I think I made my point too. Haha!
Now let’s see what we can do with alliterations.
Wikipedia describes alliterations as the repetition of a particular sound in a series of words or phrases. They can be sentences where every word starts with the same letter.
The real creativity is not just writing each word with the same letter. The sentences must make sense, even if they turn out to be silly. But that’s what makes this exercise interesting.
Alliterations can be used to make tongue twisters starting each word with the same letter, such as the well-known…
“Peter piper picked a peak of pickled peppers.”
Actually, any authored artistic alliterations are acceptable. See what I did there? I wrote a sentence with all the words starting with the letter “A.”
You may have noticed the caption I wrote under the image at the top of this article. I got creative and wrote it in the form of an alliteration…
“Previously patented paranoia by a practicing physician prone to poor prognosis.”
Can you write an entire story this way? Yes you can! I had fun writing the following two stories with an arrangement of alliterations.
Sam Simpson’s Secret
Sam Simpson from the south seems to be a seaman at the seashore searching for a seal spotted from a seaplane, with a searchlight shining from the shore.
The searchlight was secretly purchased from Sears and shipped by seahorse from the Sears Tower at the season’s sale price of seventy-seven and seven cents.
This secret wasn’t shared and was kept in seclusion by the self-supporting secretary of Simpson’s shaky sequence of shady shrines.
Phyllis From Philly
Phyllis from Philly filled a fiddle with four flowers in a fountain. The flowers were fumigated and flopped over the fiddle. The fiddle fell forth over Phyllis, and Phyllis fell from the fountain.
A fragment of the foul fiddle was found in a fortress by a fortunate but fraudulent fraternity fellow from France who fried fresh fruits to a fizzle with fuel found in the fission of fond flamboyant firewood from forests in the Fiji Islands.
I came up with some totally tacky but truly thrilling and twisted tales by letting my mind go free. I focused on only one thing, writing alliterative verse from A to Z, and managed to do this all the way through the alphabet.
A
About an afternoon of appreciation, above all anticipation, I have become abreast of an abundance of affluent thoughts of the absurd.
B
It’s better to beautify the basics in between the best decisions than to brag and bet on better boasts.
C
My callous creativity gets cautiously better as I capture considerable causes.
D
David from Denver divided all the definitions into decisive disorder in a dutiful manner.
E
My erratic effectiveness is emotionally exhausting and even an everlasting endeavor.
F
Figuratively speaking, my father went farther into the woods because he couldn’t stand to hear this any further.
G
Generosity and gratitude is a great gift to gander.
H
High above the Himalayas in a helium balloon, I hallucinate with the heuristics of weightlessness.
I
I’m impoverished to imagine that I could continue to improve on this idiocy and inconsistencies.
J
Joking is just becoming more difficult to justify judiciously.
K
It’s kind of like kicking a kayak down the street with a kite attached to it.
L
Lots of lucky streaks are originating from my lucid limitations as they become liquefied.
M
More meanderings are merely materializing from my mind.
N
Need to improve in the nick of time, or none of the nonsense will make any new sense now.
O
I started off overly optimistic with an opportunity to overindulge on occasion.
P
Piecing the peculiar pieces together is a pickle, while my permutations preceded the potential progress of my predicament.
Q
Quite a questionable feat not to quit, I must say.
R
I’d rather run into repetitive revisions of my ridiculous ramifications. That would be more responsible of me.
S
As you sheepishly read these silly sentences, you may have become surprisingly aware of the strategy with some of my senseless shenanigans.
T
Tantalizing tipsy ideas are getting me totally translucent, whatever that tactical thought means.
U
Upon all unpretentious ideas I will never undo the unassuming unanimous understanding of the understatements I have uncovered here.
V
Making any value out of this volume of nonsense is very vexing.
W
Why would I subject myself to such a wide and wily array of wild thoughts in a wilderness without any widening focus?
X
Excluding the obvious, I must exit this extreme experiment soon. (Oh! I cheated on this one. Not a single word starts with an X here).
Y
I didn’t yield to yodeling or using a yellow marker. I bet you didn’t think I would get this far without yammering.
Z
I zealously zoomed right through it and zeroed in on the letter Z.
As you can see, interjections, alliterations, and Tautograms can be used in various ways to add interesting expressions to one’s writing.
Although I exaggerated quite a bit in this article, the point was to go to an extreme to give a full review of what can be done with these nifty expressions.
I now return you to your normal state of mind.
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