Consonant Parade
by Amy LV
Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginnings of words or in stressed syllables. Tongue twisters are alliteration on a wild day, with many many sounds repeating themselves...so much so that they are difficult to say!
Students - One way I often revise my poems is to ask, "Is there a place where I might sneak in a wee bit of alliteration? Is there a word I could change to have two sounds near each other?"
For example, in "Soap Hope," line nine could have read I place the sliver. But I slide the sliver sounds more slidy, more soapy, more fun!
Try looking at one of your poems searching synonym substitutes. Add the art of alliteration to a line!
from July 2010
from July 2011
from November 2011
from May 2011
Throughout
this month, I have been posting daily poetry lessons and revisits of
last year's poems from here at The Poem Farm. This will continue
during the whole of National Poetry Month, and you can see the previous
posts below.
April 1 - Poems about Poems
April 2 - Imagery
April 3 - Poems about Animals We Know
April 4 - Line Breaks and White Space
April 5 - Poems from Everyday Life
April 6 - Free Verse
April 7 - Poems from Wonders & Questions
April 8 - Classroom Poetry Peek & Circular Poems
April 9 - Poems about Science
April 10 - Rhyming Couplets
April 11 - Riddle Poems
April 12 - List Poems
April 13 - Poems for Occasions
April 14 - Concrete Poems
April 15 - Poems about Food
April 16 - Quatrains
April 17 - Poems about the Seasons
April 18 - Today - Alliteration
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?
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