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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Q0dfrbr10. Alliteration. By: Chong Moua , Brenna Murray, Mai Saisitthidej , and Grant McGuire. Alliteration.
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Alliteration By: Chong Moua, Brenna Murray, Mai Saisitthidej, and Grant McGuire
Alliteration • Definition: The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables; also called head rhyme, initial rhyme. • Assonance: The repetition of similar vowel sounds in poetry. • He had a book and a crooked hat. • Consonance: When words appearing at the ends of two or more verses have similar final consonant sounds but have final vowel sounds that differ • ’T was later when the summer wentThan when the cricket came,And yet we knew that gentle clockMeant nought but going home.
Example Poems • Cipher Connected • By Paul McCannCareless cars cutting corners create confusion .Crossing centrelines.Countless collisions cost coffins.Collect conscious change.Copy?Continue cautiously.Comply?Cool .
EXAMPLE POEMS • Lee Emmett • MONDAY MORNING MOANING • Monday morning moaningTuesday trip to townWednesday weeping womanThursday think thumbs downFriday's fair for floatingSaturday sulking, so sadSunday singing sweetlyMonday morning mad
Poets & Poems • Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven) • Lee Emmett (Monday Morning Moaning, Itch) • William Thomas Dodd (Fabulously Factitive) • Robert Frost (Stopping by Woods, Nothing Gold can Stay)
Resources • http://languagearts.pppst.com/alliteration.html • http://www.voicesnet.org/allpoemsonecategory.aspx?catid=AL0010 • http://www.examples-help.org.uk/alliteration.htm
Activity • Tongue twisters! • Each group will create a tongue twister from the sound or subject assigned to them. • Tongue twisters should be at least 10 words long and actually make sense! • The group with the best tongue twister, as voted by DeMiero and Knight wins a prize!