REPETITION

BY D.J Coker

DEFINITIONS

• Alliteration - The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

• Repetition - Is the act of repeating. Like repeating an action or a performance, production, or presentation.

REPETITION PHRASES

• William, William, writing late

by the chill and sooty grate,what immortal story can

make your tiger roar again? • When I sent to fetch your

meatI confess that I did eat

half the roast and all the bread.

He will never know, I said.

• Don't delay dawns disarming display . Dusk demands daylight . Dewdrops dwell delicatelydrawing dazzling delight .Dewdrops dilute daisies domain. Distinguished debutantes . Diamonds defray delivereddaylights distilled daisy dance .

QUESTIONS

MOON HERE ME SING

NO

I LISTEN TO THE WIND

NO

Keyboard clicks quietly

YES

See the Sunshine

YES

Red Rock Canyon rages with red

NO

I look Cool

NO

The moon looks like a face

NO

Tongue Twisters• Betty Botter had some

butter,"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.If I bake this bitter butter,It would make my batter bitter.But a bit of better butter,That would make my batter better."So she bought a bit of butter –Better than her bitter butter –And she baked it in her batter;And the batter was not bitter.So 'twas better Betty BotterBought a bit of better butter.

• ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.So it is better to be Shott than Nott.Some say Nott was not shot.But Shott says he shot Nott.Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot,Or Nott was shot.If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,Then Shott was shot, not Nott.However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott, but Nott.

Sources

• http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/alliterationpractice.html

• http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/tool.poem.glossary.1.html?id=38

• http://home.vicnet.net.au/~poems/ps/html/alliteration_examples.html

• http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/alliterationclassics.html