Alliteration

ALLITERATION

A word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group. It is also, the repetition of the beginning sounds in a word.

EXAMPLES

Of course the Alliteration Tongue Twisters that everyone seems to know, but can't seem to say:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck If a woodchuck would chuck wood.

Alliteration in poems:

Here are examples of alliteration taken from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe:

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary ...rare and radiant maiden And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

Alliteration in children books:

Dr. Suess is known for his alliteration usage.

ex: Aunt Annie’s alligator Barber baby bubbles and a bumblebee Camel on the ceiling C…c….c David Donald Doo dreamed a dozen doughnuts and a duck-dog, too ear egg elephant Four fluffy feathers on a Fiffer-feffer-feff Goat girl googoo goggles Hungry horse hay Hen in a hat Hooray Hooray Icabod is itchy Jerry Jordan’s jelly jar and jam Kitten Kangaroo Kick a kettle Lazy lion licks a lollipop Many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight Nine new neckties and a nightshirt Oscar’s only ostrich oiled an orange owl today Painting pink pajamas The quick Queen of Quincy and her quacking quacker-oo Rosy Robin Ross…riding on her red rhinoceros Silky Sammy Slick sipped six sodas Ten tied turtles on a tuttle-tuttle tree Uncle Ubb’s umbrella Vera Violet Vinn is very very very awful on her violin Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo Nixie Knox A yawning yellow yak Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz

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