ALLITERATION

WHAT ARE ALLITERATIONS?

Willy Wonka

Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Mickey Mouse

Donald Duck

Any more?

TYPES OF ALLITERATION

Consonance

AssonanceSeverus Snape

Vernon Dursley

FIND THE ALLITERATION

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay

FIND THE ALLITERATION

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay

FIND THE ALLITERATION

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay

FIND THE ALLITERATION

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay

FIND THE ALLITERATION

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay

FIND THE ALLITERATION

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay

WHY?

• Why do authors use alliteration?

• Why should you and I use alliteration in our writing?

PRACTICE TIME!

• Make the longest alliterated sentence you can, then share it with a partner.