1. ALLITERATION

2. WHAT ARE ALLITERATIONS? Willy Wonka Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Mickey Mouse Donald Duck Any more?

3. TYPES OF ALLITERATION Consonance Assonance Severus Snape Vernon Dursley

4. FIND THE ALLITERATION “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

5. FIND THE ALLITERATION “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

6. FIND THE ALLITERATION “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

7. FIND THE ALLITERATION “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

8. FIND THE ALLITERATION “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

9. FIND THE ALLITERATION “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

10. WHY? Why do authors use alliteration? Why should you and I use alliteration in our writing?

11. PRACTICE TIME! Make the longest alliterated sentence you can, then share it with a partner.