Alliteration

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• Alliteration and onomatopoeia
• Examples of alliteration with tongue twisters
• Examples of alliteration in poetry
• Examples of alliteration in verses
• Other figures of speech:

The alliteration It is a literary device whose characteristic is the successive repetition of a certain sound in order to produce a certain effect. For example: The lady does not love the master.

The most common is the repetition of syllables to produce a sound type result, although there are also alliterations that repeat only the vowels.

An alliteration can be used in verses, tongue twisters, or in poetry:

• Tongue twister alliteration. It is generally used to teach or transmit a certain sound to children. In these cases the initial consonant is repeated in all the words of the same sentence. For example: Three sad tigers.
• Alliteration in poetry. It is one of the rhetorical figures used to embellish writing. In this case, the intention is to repeat a single phoneme or similar phonemes. For example: Sighs escape her strawberry mouth. In this poem by Rubén Darío the repetition of the letter S is used with the intention of highlighting the sighs.
• Alliteration in verse. Skaldic poetry (or court poetry) is characterized by using at least three words that begin with the same letter in the same verse.

Alliteration and onomatopoeia

On many occasions alliteration is often confused with onomatopoeia, but they are different concepts: alliteration is the repetition of a sound and onomatopoeia represents the specific action in writing.

For example: Wow (evokes the barking action of a dog) bang (evokes a shot).

• See also: Onomatopoeias

Examples of alliteration with tongue twisters

1. There is a skinned, skinned hen that marries a skinned, hairy, skinned rooster, and they have skinned, hairy, and skinned chicks.
2. Donkey saving, hill I run through the mud, with a car, jar, churro, lining.
3. Pepe combs his hair, Pepe chops potatoes, Pepe eats a pineapple, Pepe has few freckles.
4. He gave Mr. Magaña lagaña, spider, tangle, for eating lasagna.
5. Three sad tigers eat wheat in a wheat field.
6. The straw train pita puja puja pita.
7. Pablito nailed a little nail, what little nail did Pablito nail?
8. Consuelo, contemplate, happy ...
9. Three sad trapeze artists run with three pieces of rags
10. Pedro chops potatoes with a peeler. Pedro chops potatoes.
11. There comes he who came to drink wine has come.
12. The gold and the Moor promise in the golden tower.
13. Wagons and wagons run on the road.
14. The master loves the housekeeper but the housekeeper does not love the master.
15. The nerdy kid eats gnocchi while doing nerdies and then puts on a bow tie.

• See also: Tongue twisters

Examples of alliteration in poetry

1. The noise with which the hoarse tempest rolls (José Zorrilla)
2. With the light wing of the slight fan (Rubén Darío)
3. Spain, end of the spider web, scythe.
4. It stains and unstains, stains and unstains
5. Roque's dog does not have a tail because Roque has cut it off (anonymous)
6. The goldfinch
   Sing, and to the pilgrim sun of his wheat yellow throat
   New from threshing fries the trill glass (Leopoldo Lugones)
7. Like a bull that is bull and blue that is from Spain
8. In the silence they only listened
   The whisper of the bees that sounded (Garcilaso de la Vega)
9. As long as you feel the soul laughs
   Without the lips laughing (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
10. On the eardrum, cease
    The background hiss (Andrés Anwandter)
11. His loose eyes light up the ground
12. With the gorse face there is a rich heart
13. Ya chole chango chilango
    What a chafa chamba you kick
    Do not check to walk of tacuche
    And chale with the tray (Chilanga Banda)
14. Much, much noise
    Window noise,
    Apple nests
    That end up rotting.
    Much, much noise
    So much, so much noise
    So much noise and in the end
    Finally the end.
    So much noise and in the end. (Joaquín Sabina)
15. Someone announces when the souls will appear

• See also: Poems

Examples of alliteration in verses

1. The clear clarinets are heard (Rubén Darío)
2. My mom pampers me (popular alliteration)
3. Josefina takes the bag out in the sun to dry (anonymous)
4. Screaming Chillería (Juan Ramón Jiménez)
5. The vague dragonfly of vague illusion (Rubén Darío)
6. Grab the claws of birds of rare breeds (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
7. His kissing mouth erases sadness (Alfredo Le Pera)
8. The short flight of a green flight (anonymous)
9. Denis really likes anise (anonymous)
10. The sailboat with the violet sails flames like a bird that flies free (anonymous)
11. Walker there is no path, the path is made by walking (Antonio Machado)
12. Chillería trinkets for kids

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