Haynes Alliteration

Choose the best definition of alliteration

• The initial repetition of vowels

• Consecutive words that end in the same consonant

• The initial repetition of consonants

• Conecutive words that end in a vowel

True of False: Alliteration always involves vowels

• True

• False

True or False: consonants are every letter in the alphabet except the vowels

• True

• False

Select all the ones that use alliteration

• Donald Duck

• How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

• Barbara baked banana bread but it burned

• Dunkin’ Donuts

  Krispy Kreme

  Bath & Body Works

  Bed, Bath & Beyond

  LuluLemon

  Coca-Cola

  Best Buy

  American Airlines

  PayPal

  American Apparel

True or False: tongue twisters often use alliteration

• True

• False

The word "alliteration" is a noun. Choose the correct adjective form of "alliteration"

• alliteratious

• alliterative

• alliteraful

• alliterashion

True or False: You need a special talent to use alliteration in your writing

• True

• False

Complete the phrase that best completes the sentence: "Alliteration is . . ."

• . . . almost impossible to find in a passage."

• . . . used only by poets."

• . . . almost never used in the English language."

• . . . common in the English language."

Choose the best definition of "rhetoric"

• the art of writing non fiction

• the art of writing fiction

• the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

• the science of langauge

Choose the best definition of "rhetorical device"

• a use of language that is intended to have an effect on its audience

• words that are used in weird ways

• words that are difficult to understand

• words that are really long