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Alliteration: Enhancing Language Creativity

Learn about alliteration, where the same sound is repeated at the start of words. Discover its effects in making phrases catchy and setting moods in writing. Explore alliterative recipes by creating fun and descriptive lines. Practice making your lines as vivid and engaging as possible using alliteration.

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Alliteration: Enhancing Language Creativity

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  1. Alliteration Learn what alliteration is and what it can do

  2. Definition – a) What do you notice about this line: • Many monsters munched mighty morsels. • What is it that makes it alliterative? • b) What do you notice about this line? • Nine naughty gnats knew nibbles were nice.

  3. It’s important to remember that it’s the sound and not the spelling that counts. • Write this definition – • Alliteration – When the same sound gets repeated at the start of words.

  4. Exploring the effects of alliteration • Alliteration makes lines catchy and memorable but it can also help to create a mood. • A poet who wanted to make a place sound heavy and forceful might write: • Dead dogs die dreadfully in deserted dungeons.

  5. Treacle trickled trippingly on her tongue. • Seven slippery snakes slithered slowly. • (Alliteration using ‘s’ sounds is also known as sibilance) • How hushed the heavens are, hearing the night.

  6. Title – An Alliterative Recipe • Write down the letters of the alphabet in the margin of your book. Leave a line gap. • For each letter write an alliterative line to describe each part of the recipe. For example: • A - Add an apple to an appetising anchovy • B - Bring the boiling brains to the basin briskly • C – Carve ……… • Hints • Start lines with verbs so that give an instruction • Make the recipe as disgusting as possible with plenty of description • Not every word must have the same sound, just as many as you can • Leave out tough sounds and go back at the end

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