What is alliteration?

Alliteration is a term that describes a

literary stylistic device. Alliteration is
the repetition of one or more initial
sounds, usually consonants, in
words within a line.
 Alliterative Sentences

My four friends are fantastic.

Creepy crawly critters keep quiet.

A pirate picked a pair of pretty purple pants.

 More Alliterative Sentences

Forevergreen Forest was a peaceful place.

Slick and silent, the snake slithered in the tree.

The quiet cricket creeped through the grass.

 The Snake
By Janet Lawler
Slick and silent,
Near my toe,
Through the leaves,
I see it go.
Over sticks
I watch it glide,
Looking for a place to hide.
Slow and sliding,
Does it know,
I’m scared of how it
Slithers so?
Sly and sleek, it slips away.
I’m glad it passed me by today
 The Snake
By Janet Lawler

Slick and silent,

Near my toe,
Through the leaves,
I see it go.
Over sticks
I watch it glide,
Looking for a place to hide.
Slow and sliding,
Does it know,
I’m scared of how it
Slithers so?
Sly and sleek, it slips away.
I’m glad it passed me by today
 Tongue Twisters

Shelly shouldn’t shake saltshakers, should she?

Five fat frogs fly fast.

Fred’s friend Fran flips fine flapjacks fast.

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she
shines she sits.

The thirty-three thieves thought that they

thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
 Identify the alliteration in the following
examples to test your skills:
1. Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around
August.
2. Becky’s beagle barked and bayed, becoming
bothersome for Billy.
3. Carrie’s cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.
4. Dan’s dog dove deep in the dam, drinking
dirty water as he dove.
5. Eric’s eagle eats eggs, enjoying each episode
of eating.
6. Fred’s friends fried Fritos for Friday’s food.
7. Garry’s giraffe gobbled gooseberry’s
greedily, getting good at grabbing goodies.
8. Hannah’s home has heat hopefully.
9. Isaacs ice cream is interesting and Isaac
is imbibing it.
10. Jesse’s jaguar is jumping and jiggling
jauntily.
11. Kim’s kid’s kept kiting
 Consonance
• the repetition of two or more
consonant sounds within a
line. Often the consonant
sounds come at the very end
of the word, but they come in
the middle as well.
 Consonance
And all is seared with trade; bleared
smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares
man’s smell: the soil
(Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”)
"Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile
Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile,
Many styles, More powerful than gamma rays
My grammar pays, like Carlos Santana plays" -
Zealots by Fugees
 Assonance
• is the repetition of vowel sounds in
nearby words. These vowel sounds
come anywhere within the word. It is
used to reinforce the meanings of
words or to set the mood.
“And stepping softly with her air
of blooded ruin about the glade
in a frail agony of grace she
trailed her rags through dust and
ashes, circling the dead fire, the
charred billets and chalk bones,
the little calcined ribcage.”
 Short assonance examples:
“Hear the mellow wedding bells” from Edgar
Allen Poe
“Try to light the fire”
“I lie down by the side of my bride”
“Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese”
Pink Floyd’s “Hear the lark and harken to the
barking of the dark fox gone to ground”
“It's hot and it's monotonous.” by Sondheim
“The crumbling thunder of seas” by Robert Louis
Stevenson
 Here’s A Fun One
Betty Botter bought some butter.
“But,” she said, “the butter’s bitter.
If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter,
But a bit of better butter,
That would make my batter better.”
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than her bitter butter,
And she put it in her batter,
And the batter was not bitter.
So t’was better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.
Alliteration in Advertisements
Where do you want to go today?
- Microsoft
Life’s Good- LG
Connecting People- NOKIA
Just Do It. – NIKE
Impossible is Nothing- ADIDAS
I am What I Am- Reebok
 Slogans with Alliteration
"You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife"
- Country Life Butter

"The daily diary of the American dream"

-Wall Street Journal

"Guinness is good for you" -Guinness Beer

“Don’t dream it. Drive it.” - Jaguar
"What we want is Watney's" -Watney's Beer

"Live life loud" -I-home

"Stanley Steemer is your carpet cleaner" -

Stanley steemer carpet cleaning
Britain’s Best Business Bank- Allied Irish
Bank

Dream. Dare. Do.- Girl Guides

Functional…Fashionable…Formidable- FILA
An acrostic poem
a type of poetry where the first, last or other
letters in a line spell out a particular word or
phrase

the first letters of each line spell out the

word or phrase
ACROSTIC POEM
"Bubbles" by Becky Precious by Precy
Pretty pal
Beautiful balls
Revealing realist
Usually up Epic enzyme
Best blowing Caring and chic
Before bouncing In idealistic intimacy
Lift lightly Oh! Offbeat
Utmost unafraid
Easily elevated Silly snappy
Sometimes slippery
Usually up
Revealing realist
Epic enzyme
Acrostic Poem
Can you make your own tongue
twisters?