Poetic Devices Alliteration

What is alliteration?

• a word that mimics a sound
• repetition of consonant sounds
• using symbols to represent something
• Giving human-like traits to non-living objects

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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 poetic device is used in this picture? Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.

• Repetition

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Alliteration

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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 sound device is being used in this line?

Softly and slowly the snowflakes fell

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

How could the following sentence be rewritten to contain alliteration?

I accidentally left my phone at home.

• I accidentally left my phone in the basement.

• I fled, forgetting my phone was in the family room.

• I neglected to get my phone when I left the apartment.

• I've left my phone on the sofa many times before.

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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?

• Jackie jumped through the gym.

• Tommy was the man.

• Susan is not actually lazy.

• Sarah seized the celery at the store.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition is...

• the use of any part of language more than once, it could be a letter, a word, a sentence or a phrase.

• using different words in a sentence.

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Sorry Miss Sally I said it so sorrowfully.

Which letter is showing repetition?

• I

• S

• M

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4