Alliteration

Definition: When two or more words in a poem begin with the same letter or sound.

Example

Dressy Daffodils

"Dressy daffodils" is an example of alliteration because both the words begin with "D." Alliteration is like rhyming, but with alliteration the rhyming comes at the front of the words instead of the end.

Rabbits Running Over Roses

"Rabbits running over roses" is another example of Alliteration because rabbits, running, and roses all begin with the same letter and sound the same.

Caring Cats

Caring cats cascade off
Laughing lamas
Lounging.
Underneath yelling yaks,
Yelling at roaming
Rats.

By Rachael

Rain

Rain races,
Ripping like wind.
Its restless rage
Rattles like
Rocks ripping through
The air.

By Jake

Laughing Lions

Laughing lions laugh
like jumping jaguars
on top of talking trees.
When
the
talking trees start
talking,
the joking
jaguars fall
off.

By Rachel

 

Wind Whistles

Wind whistles
through the air,
while
talking turtles shiver
like sea horses
while everyone is asleep.


By Rachael

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Classic alliteration poems