CreatureAlliterationPoem

What is an alliteration?An alliteration is when a sentence or phrase

mostly begins with the same letter or sound.

*Dunkin Donuts*Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around

August.*Garry’s giraffe gobbled gooseberry’s

greedily, getting good at grabbing goodies.

Practice Time!• We are going to take five minutes to practice

writing our own alliterations before we take on a whole poem!

•You need to have at least five words or more in your alliteration.•Three words must begin with the same letter or sound.

Monster Example!This is a recticarian.A recticarian lives on really ridiculous rectangular ranches is

rural Russia.A recticarian rudely eats rice, raspberries, radishes, roots,

and rhubarb. A recticarian likes rusty things, Rhode Island, Rottweilers,

and ravens.A recticarian wore a rickety pair of roller blades and rafted

down the roaring Roseburg River.My recticarian rolled red roses over the rug in my room and

ruined it.

BuzzlebopThis is a buzzlebop. A buzzlebop lives on a bumpy bubble over a bunk of

babbling babies. A buzzlebop eats bumble bees that buzz, bunches of

bananas, bamboo, and buttered bark.A buzzlebop likes to bamboozle babies, bite bark, and big

black bugs.A buzzlebop did a back flip wearing binoculars into a

bicycle and bumped the biker.My buzzlebop bagged a bunch of balls and bounced them

down the back of my barn.

Now, it’s your turn.

Line 1: Name your creature.Line 2: Tell where your creature lives.Line 3: Tell what your creature eats.Line 4: Tell what your creature likes.Line 5: Tell something about your creature.Line 6: Tell something your creature did to you.