Project

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Project

• Assignment Create an alliterative poem on a
  PowerPoint slide or poster.
• Guidelines
• Your poem must be at least 10 lines.
• Include at least 5 examples of alliteration in
  your poem.
• Add a related picture/image to your slide or
  poster.

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Alliteration
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What is Alliteration?

• Alliteration is the repetition of initial
  consonant sound in two or more neighboring words
  or syllables.
• Also known as Initial Rhyme.
• Here are some examples
• the wild winds of winter
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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Lets look at another example

• WEATHER
• Whether the weather be fineOr whether the
  weather be not,Whether the weather be coldOr
  whether the weather be hot,We'll weather the
  weatherWhatever the weather,Whether we like it
  or not.            -- Anonymous

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What is the purpose of Alliteration?
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The purpose of alliteration is to create a
pattern that catches the readers attention.
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The railroad tracks ran right through the center
of town.

• Alliteration makes the reader read faster.

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Alliterative poems tend to be tongue twisters.
They are written for the fun they bring when they
are read!

• She sells seashells by the seashore!

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Rules for Alliteration
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Proper alliteration is NOT a repetition of
letters it is a repetition of sound.

• For example, never and knight alliterate because
  they begin with the same consonant sound.
• Conversely, even though tin and thank begin with
  the same letter, they do not alliterate because
  they dont begin with the same consonant sound.
• http//alliteration.net/field5.htm

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Alliteration is all around us!

• Take some time to look around and notice

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In a Story or poetry
Fresh Fish Do you like fresh fish?It's just
fine at Finney's Diner.Finney also has some
fresher fishthat's fresher and much finer.But
his best fish is his freshest fishand Finney
says with pride,"The finest fish at Finney's
ismy freshest fish, French-fried!""Oh say can
you say" Dr. Seuss, 1979
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In Sports (Sports writers REALLY love
alliteration!)
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On Billboards in advertising
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On the World Wide Web
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Restaurants advertise using the help of
alliteration.
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Product Advertising (another HUGE user of
alliteration)
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Brand Names
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Store Names
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Television

• Can you think of other examples?

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A Mystery of HeroismIdentify Alliteration

• When a piece was fired, a red streak as round
  as a log flashed low in the heavens, like a
  monstrous bolt of lightning. (p. 49)

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A Mystery of Heroism

• When a piece was fired, a red streak as round
  as a log flashed low in the heavens, like a
  monstrous bolt of lightning. (p. 49)

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A Mystery of Heroism

• The men of the battery wore white duck
  trousers, which somehow emphasized their legs
  (p. 49)

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A Mystery of Heroism

• The men of the battery wore white duck
  trousers, which somehow emphasized their legs
  (p. 49)

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A Mystery of Heroism

• As the eyes of half the regiment swept in one
  machine-like movement, there was an instant's
  picture of a horse in a great convulsive leap of
  a death-wound and a rider leaning back with a
  crooked arm and spread fingers before his face.
  On the ground was the crimson terror of an
  exploding shell, with fibers of flame that seemed
  like lances. (p. 50)

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A Mystery of Heroism

• As the eyes of half the regiment swept in one
  machine-like movement, there was an instant's
  picture of a horse in a great convulsive leap of
  a death-wound and a rider leaning back with a
  crooked arm and spread fingers before his face.
  On the ground was the crimson terror of an
  exploding shell, with fibers of flame that seemed
  like lances. (p. 50)

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Independent Practice

• Highlight examples of alliteration in A Mystery
  of Heroism.
• You will earn 1 point for each example!