Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
eating her curds and whey
along came a spider,
who sat down beside her
and frightened Miss Muffet Away!
Simile - "As brave as a lion." Metaphor - "Time is a thief." Personification - "The trees danced in the wind." Hyperbole - "I've told you a million times." Alliteration - "She sells seashells by the seashore." Onomatopoeia - "The clock ticked loudly." Oxymoron - "Deafening silence." Irony - "The fire station burned down." Pun - "I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down." Idiom - "It's raining cats and dogs."
Timmy took ten tires. Bob bought bagels before breakfast. Nancy napped through noon.
Alliteration. Repetition of initial consonants or sounds is alliteration, and is very handy for emphasizing a certain phrase, or as a memory aid.
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Three tricky turtles trotted together to the tranquil pond.
Example sentence with three adjectives (silly, little, happy) and a noun (girl).She was a silly little girl but she was happy.
"bedroom bunk beds" is the alliteration in the sentence because all three words start with a b.
Sure! Three examples of personification in the first stanza of "April Rain Song" by Langston Hughes are: "rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof," "rain sings a song of little drops," and "rain makes trees look greener."
You mean "what are the criteria for alliteration." Criteria is plural.An alliteration is the use of a repeating consonant sound at the beginning of words. They do not need to be spelled the same. They do not need to be immediately adjacent, but any intervening words should be unaccented. "The Quran is kind to Christians" is an alliteration notwithstanding the unaccented words "is" and "to" and the fact that the same sound is spelled in three words with a "q", a "k", and a "ch".On the other hand, "civic charity committee" is not an alliteration because although all three words start with "c" the "c" is pronounced differently in each word.
'draft' 'graft' and 'craft' are all examples of words that rhyme. 'Drought' and 'draught' do not rhyme with the previous three words or each other and instead are examples of alliteration draft graft craft draught are pronounced "arft" (or Aft in US) whereas drought is pronounced "owt" as in "out"
When words in a sentence begin with the same three letters, it is called alliteration. This literary device is often used for emphasis, to create a rhythmic effect, or to make the writing more memorable to the reader.