Saturday, June 6, 2020

Alliteration Examples

Alliteration Examples Alliteration Alliteration is the figurative term for when a beginning consonant sound is repeated over and over in a poem or text. Alliteration is often used to provide a certain rhythmic sound to the poetry. The repetition of a specific sound can also affect the mood. For example, a repeated "w" sound often gives a lulling mood. The repetition of a harder sound-like "p" or "b"-sets a different mood. Alliteration is heavily used in "tongue twisters." Examples of Alliteration: Examples of Alliteration: 1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. (repeated p sound) 2. Sally sells seashells by the sea shore. (repeated s sound) 3. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. (repeated w and c/ch sounds) 4. The sly, slithering snake snuck into the shed. (repeated s sound) 5. The river rushed rapidly over the rocks. (repeated r sound) Example of Alliteration from Literature: 1. From Romeo and Juliet: "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes . . ." (repeated f sound) 2. From "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe: "Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary" (repeated w sound) 3. William Blake's "Tyger": "burning bright," "frame thy fearful symmetry" 4. Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends": "We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow / and watch where the chalk-white arrows go" (repeated w sound)

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