Alliteration examples can be seen most easily in tongue twisters.
When you have alliteration examples, remember that the close succession of beginning consonants in words will make the sound each letter makes have more resonance with your readers. This not only helps with onomatopoeia in your writing, but it enables you to create a rhythm within your writing that makes it easier to read. It also will help make it more accessible to a wider variety of readers. Click for Free Writer's Block Help E-Zine and Free E-Book In the following tongue twister examples, notice that only a few focus solely on one main consonant and the sound it possesses when spoken. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear; Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair; Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Writing with alliteration allows you to not have to focus solely on one specific sound. You can work a variety of consonants and sounds into your writing to make your alliteration examples more impressive. For example: Brian's baby blanket performed the perfect purpose as a cuddly companion. Not only have I used alliteration in the previous sentence, but also personification, as a blanket is not apt to "perform" too often. It is a word generally reserved for humans or animals that are showing off a talent of some sort through the art of performance. You also might choose to use alliteration words that have the same sound, but lack the same letter. Some examples might be: The celebrated citizen was surprised when the circus was named after him.
The criminal cocked his gun and completed the kill.
These prove that some letters can convey the same sound to the ear, and you can sometimes mix and match them to create more worthwhile phrasing. Take the letters "c" and "s," for example. They can sound alike, as in "celebrated" and "surprised," but they can also sound different, as in "carry" and "sun". Make the first letter sounds aloud for yourself so you can hear the difference between how the letters are pronounced. What other letters have similar sounds? Can you pass them off for alliteration? Think about it, and see what you can come up with to add a bit more razzle-dazzle to your writing. Take the time to work on alliteration poems, short stories, and other alliteration examples to get your mind thinking and creating new sounds and onomatopoeic ways of writing. For poetry, you may choose to write in the form of an acrostic so that you can have each line of each verse of your poem fixate on a specific letter that serves as the alliterative sound of that specific line. There are so many ways to think about alliteration, but this just serves as one interesting idea to get you started on the path to writing great alliteration examples of your very own. You are sure to come up with some great examples if you set your mind to it. Have fun writing with alliteration. Who knows? Maybe you'll even make up some of your very own tongue twisters. Now, wouldn't that be neat?
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