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-repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.  "Alliteration is sometimes defined as the repetition of initial sounds."  ("All the awful auguries," or "Bring me my bow of burning gold"). (Literature for Composition, 228)
+[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/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
+[http://youtu.be/k8xq3vVF1pk ''Dr. Suess ABC'' book]