Alliteration

Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sound in two or more neighboring words or syllables.

Here are some examples:

Dolly Doesn’t like Don

The Wild Winds of Winter

Proper alliteration is NOT a repetition of letters; it is a

repetition of sound.

For example, never and knight are alliterate because they begin with the same consonant sound.

Ex: The Knight never rode to Norway

However, even though tin and thank begin with the same letter, they do not alliterate because they don’t begin with the

same consonant sound.

Ex: Thank you for my Tin ring

More Examples

Clyde Clumsily Closed the Closet

Angela and her Ants had a picnic of Anchovies

Wally the Worm had a great Workout

Tongue Twisters are examples of alliterative poetry

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

If Freaky Fred Found Fifty Feet of FruitAnd Fed Forty Feet to his Friend FrankHow many Feet of Fruit did Freaky Fred Find?

Super Samson Simpson

I am Super Samson Simpson,I'm superlatively strong,I like to carry elephants,

I do it all day long,I pick up half a dozen

and hoist them in the air,it's really somewhat simple,for I have strength to spare.

My muscles are enormous,they bulge from top to toe,and when I carry elephants,

they ripple to and fro,but I am not the strongest

in the Simpson family,for when I carry elephants,my grandma carries me.

Jack Prelutsky

Super Samson Simpson

I am Super Samson Simpson,I'm superlatively strong,I like to carry elephants,

I do it all day long,I pick up half a dozen

and hoist them in the air,it's really somewhat simple,for I have strength to spare.

My muscles are enormous,they bulge from top to toe,and when I carry elephants,

they ripple to and fro,but I am not the strongest

in the Simpson family,for when I carry elephants,my grandma carries me.

Jack Prelutsky

Group Quiz

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/alliterationpractice.html

Alliteration is all around you!!!

Take some time to look around and notice…

In Sports

In Advertising

Store Names

Now time to make your own!!!