Alliteration

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Alliteration
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What is Alliteration?

• It is the repetition of a consonant sound at the
  beginning of words.
• For Example
• do or die safe and sound
• now or never sweet smell of success

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What is its purpose?

• Hear the loud alarum bells--Brazen bells!What a
  tale of terror, now, their turbulency
  tells!--Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells
• It bleeds the black blood of the blueberry.
• --Audubon A Vision

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• It is one of the poet's most important sound
  techniques
• It makes particular words stand out
• It also connects the words to be emphasized

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• "Step forward, Tin Man. You dare to come to me
  for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking,
  clattering collection of caliginous junk...And
  you, Scarecrow, have the effrontery to ask for a
  brain! You billowing bale of bovine fodder!
• --from the movie, Wizard of Oz
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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Ode
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• A lyric poem praising or glorifying a person,
  place, or thing.
• Lyric poem spoken by a single speaker who
  expresses a state of mind, a thought, and
  feeling.
• Although it is in first person, the I in the
  poem does not have to be the poet.

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• Pablo Nerudas Elemental Odes
• Ode To Tomatoes
• Ode To a Large Tuna in the Market
• Ode To an Artichoke
• Ode To a Lemon
• Ode To Salt
• Ode To French Fries
• Ode To The Guitar

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• The street
• filled with tomatoes,
• midday,
• summer,
• light is
• halved
• like
• a
• tomato,
• its juice
• runs
• through the streets.
• In December,
• unabated,
• the tomato
• invades
• the kitchen,
• it enters at lunchtime,
• takes

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