Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
Alliteration is meant to be attention-grabbing, and is good for the memory. This is why you may have heard a lot of advertisements that have slogans that use alliteration. Find some of these here.
You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife.Country Life Butter – Advertising Slogan
The daily diary of the American dream.Wall Street Journal – Slogan
Functional... Fashionable... Formidable...Fila – Advertising Slogan
Don't dream it. Drive it.Jaguar – Advertising Slogan
It is interesting to note, that even brand names have alliterative names that are catchy and easy to remember, such as,
Coca-Cola,
Dunkin' Donuts,
Paypal,
Chuckee Cheese, etc.
Alliteration known to be a very important element in the world of marketing and advertising.
A lot of famous characters in books and cartoons also have alliterative names. Some examples are
Fred Flintstone,
Mickey Mouse,
Bugs Bunny and
Daffy Duck. Who can ignore the list of alliterative names in the famous Harry Potter series. Right from
Severus Snape, to
Minerva McGonagoll, to
Salazar Slytherin, the list is endless.
Use these examples to write up your 5 personal words as alliterative sentences or statements.
Just for fun try these (Quietly of course!)
Betty Botter bought some butter,
but, she said, the 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.
So she bought a bit of butter
better than her bitter butter,
and she put it in her batter
and the batter was not bitter.
So ’twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter.-Betty Botter, Mother Goose
Three grey geese in a green field grazing,
Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.-Three Grey Geese, Mother Goose
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"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;
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
