Test Prep

Alliteration: a literary device that repeats a speech sound in a sequence of words that are close to each other. Alliteration typically uses consonants at the beginning of a word to give stress to its syllable.
*makes poems more fun to read, sing-songy

This is an example from Edgar Allen Poe's poem, The Raven.
"And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" -silken and sad are uses of alliteration

Test Question-
What is the alliteration in this line?
 Q-The horrible hairy hamster was full of life and raced around his wheel.

A- horrible hairy and hamster