Alliteration

Alliteration Examples for Kids

Alliteration happens when words that start with the same sound are used close together in a phrase or sentence. The sound is usually a consonant and the words don’t have to always be right next to one another.

One of the fun features of alliteration is when it becomes a tongue twister.

Examples of Alliteration

Here are some examples:

• Come and clean your closet.
• The big bad bear attacked all the little bunnies in the forest.
• Shut the shutter before it makes you shudder.
• Go and gather the green leaves in the lawn.
• Please put your pen away and play the piano.
• Round and round she ran until she realized she was running round and round.
• Out with the only open tin of tuna.
• I had to hurry home because grandma wanted her waffles.
• The baron was busy as a bee.
• Garry gathered the garbage.
• Lazy lizards lying like lumps!
• Paula planted the petunias in the pot.
• Kim comes to cut colorful kites.
• Boil the butter and bring it by the bank.
• Orson’s owl out-performed ostriches.
• Larry’s lizard likes leaping leopards.

Examples of Alliteration in Literature

• Three grey geese in a green field grazing. Grey were the geese and green was the grazing. - Three Grey Geese by Mother Goose
• Great Aunt Nellie and Brent Bernard who watch with wild wonder at the wide window as the beautiful birds begin to bite into the bountiful birdseed. - Thank-You for the Thistle by Dorie Thurston
• Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said, this butter's bitter; if I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better. - Betty Botter by Carolyn Wells
• A certain young fellow named Beebee; Wished to marry a lady named Phoebe; "But," he said. "I must see; What the minister's fee be; Before Phoebe be Phoebe Beebee" by Mother Goose
• I need not your needles, They’re needless to me, For kneading of needles, Were needless, you see; But did my neat trousers, But need to be kneed, I then should have need of your needles indeed. - Baker’s Reply to the Needle Salesmanby unknown

Alliteration Tongue Twisters

Here are examples:

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
• A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
• Black bug bit a big black bear. But where is the big black bear that the big black bug bit?
• Sheep should sleep in a shed.
• I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.
• A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
• Show Shawn Sharon's shabby shoes.
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck; If a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck; If a woodchuck would chuck wood.
• Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep. The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south. These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack.

Alliteration in Names

Here are examples of alliteration in brand names and famous people

• Chuckee Cheese’s
• Coca-Cola
• Dunkin’ Donuts
• Krispy Kreme
• Mickey Mouse
• Porky Pig
• Fred Flintstone
• Donald Duck
• Spongebob Squarepants
• Seattle Seahawks