Reading: Alliteration!

This week we have learned that poets and authors use literary elements, such as alliteration and meter, in their poems and stories to reinforce its meaning.  In "Paul Revere's Ride", we found the meter was the beat of a horse galloping, which helped entertain us, as well as help us to understand the urgency in Paul Revere's midnight ride to alert the sleeping colonists of the arrival of a British attack! In this narrative poem, we also found many examples of alliteration: wonders, watches; muster, men; him, he, hears; hurrying, hoof-beats; and the list goes on. Hmmm...what's a narrative poem?  Leave me a comment for a prize.

Today, we will compose and illustrate a tongue twister using alliteration.  Here's my silly line:

Crazy, clumsy crabs carefully crawl around carrying crunchy corn on the cob!  See if you can say that 3 times!

Read this excerpt from Dinorella:

The dumbfounded deinonychus stopped in disbelief.
"Who called me a dummy?" he demanded.
   The moon's light caught Dinorella's dangling
diamonds. Dots and dabs of light darted toward
the deinonychus.
        "A DEVIL!" cried deinonychus.
             "See its dreadful demon eyes!"  

What examples of alliteration do you see...respond for a treat!