Alliteration Effects

B - hard/plosive sound

The foul fiend bites my back

• percussive sounds

• harsh physical sound

• adds to sinister nature

• creates abruptness or authority

C - hard (like K), hard/guttural/plosive

Carrie’s cat clawed her couch, creating chaos

• harshness

• too many sounds create a cacophony

• abruptness or authority

C - soft (like S), sibilant

City

• snakes; evil, biblical serpent

• sound of wind

• hushed, reverential tone

D - hard/plosive

During the whole of a dull, dark, and dreary day did I only realize David died for me

• abruptness or authority

• elicits visceral reactions

F - hard

The foul fiend bites back

• harsh physical sound

• adds to sinister nature

Fl

Fly, flee, flow, flimsy, flicker

suggestive of lightness and quickness

G - hard/guttural/plosive

Great Granny grab it from Gale’s Grandpa

harsher sounds create feeling of hardness

GL

Gleam, glisten, glow, glint, glimmer

refer to brightness

H - soft/breathy

Health, happiness, and hope for the New Year!

• breathlessness

• soothing

J - gliding

Jesse’s jaguar is jumping and jiggling jauntily

createsense of smoothness or ease

K - hard/guttural

Kim’s kids kept eating

• harsher sounds create a feeling of hardness

• abruptness or authority

L - soft/liquid consonant

Larry’s lizard likes leaping over leopards

• used in lullabies

• soothing sound

• produces an effect of lightness

M - soft

Melody’s melodic microphone made beautiful music

• used in lullabies

• soothing sound

N - hard

Noise, nausea, and loneliness, but that’s nothing new

adds a halting cadence to the grim, negative text

P - hard/plosive

From pillar to post, a pantomime of damp, forgotten washing

• puffs of wind blowing things about

• abruptness or authority

Q - hard/guttural

Quincy’s quilters quit quilting quickly

• harsher sounds create feeing of hardness

• give a sense of abruptness or authority

R - liquid consonant/rolling

Shuttering rifles rapidly rattle

reflect the movement of an object being described with it

S - sibilant

The snake spat and hissed, striking viciously at the soft and supple mouse

• bring to mind snakes

• sound of the wind

• hushed, reverential tone

• suggests smoothness, slyness, or controlled anger

T - hard/plosive

Tim took tons of tools to make toys for tots

gives abruptness or authority

V - hard

Vivien’s very vixen-like and vexing

• harsh physical sound

• adds to sinister nature

W - gliding/wispy and airy

The whispering winds swirled the mists of memory, wandering over the moors

• hushed feeling

• wind

Z - sibilant

Zachary zeroed in on zookeeping

• vibrant

• lively

• energetic