Alliteration

What is an Alliteration?

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an Example of Alliteration?

• She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
• She was giving him the cold shoulder
• He was fuming like a pot.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which is not an example.

• Kims kid kept kicking 
• Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
• He was as cold as an iceberg

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Pick a sentence that contains an Alliteration?

• Kims kid kept kicking at the air.
• Plastic bags rip easily.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Is this an alliteration.She sells seashells by the seashore.

• No
• Yes