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Alliteration

Alliteration. An alliteration is a repetition of the first constant sound in a phrase. Used to create melody, establish mood, call attention to important words, and point out similarities and contrast. Alliterations.

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Alliteration

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  1. Alliteration An alliteration is a repetition of the first constant sound in a phrase. Used to create melody, establish mood, call attention to important words, and point out similarities and contrast.

  2. Alliterations An alliteration is a type of figurative language that repeats the consonant sound in a sentence. Most alliterations are tongue twisters. Alliteration mostly have seven repeating words in the sentence. One of the old English styles of writing the alliterations is one of the least used types of figurative language.

  3. A common example in English is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Alliteration can take the form of assonance, the repetition of a vowel, or consonance, the repetition of a consonant; however, unlike a strict definition of alliteration, both assonance and consonance can regularly occur within words as opposed to being limited to the word's initial sound.

  4. LilaLedbetter lugged a lot of little lemons around Lucy's lawn. Notice that all the words underlined have the same repeating sound and they all start with the letter L. Devin Dunkin dunksdancing donuts down by Destiny's Den. Even though the letter is not the same the alliteration is still correct. The underlined words still have the same repeating sound.

  5. Snickers are slathered in silky sweet chocolate.

  6. Shaun Shockley slurped slimy snails slowly. • Wendy Wu went to watch wrestling with Wes Welker.

  7. Edward ate eight extra enlarged elephant eggs.

  8. Fred Flintstone flicked a finger football fifty-five feet and Francis Floyd was flabbergasted.

  9. Tom tossed ten total touchdowns to Troy as Tony took ten two ton TVs to town.

  10. Randy Rathborne rapidly wrapped a ridiculously rather radical rare red rabbit.

  11. Penelope the purple platypus and Patrick the pink poodle eat pizza, popcorn, peanuts, and pickles playfully.

  12. Rodney Rashbone robbed a rather rambunctious rare red rabbit.

  13. Silent Stewie set some sleeping gas on a staircase.

  14. Dazzling Deuce drove down the dome with double difficulty.

  15. Wes Welker walked wildly to Wisconsin. Shaq shouldn’t shoot free throws since it shows that Shaq stinks.

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