Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

We felt dreary and dismal in the darkness of the night.

And a famous one from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”:

Hear the loud alarum bells–

Brazen bells!

What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!

Alliteration is the repetition of first letters that are consonants. The words don’t all have to be next to each other. If a passage contains a lot of B’s, for instance, that would qualify.

It’s very common in poetry. You’ll find a lot of it in Shakespeare, for instance.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Here’s an example from Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT’S DREAM:

Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,

He bravely breach’d his boiling bloody breast

All Apples Are Alike

Bees Buzz Because Bees Be Buzzers.

Cows Can’t Cry.

Dogs Don’t Die.

Elephants Enter Ethiopia.

I can’t be bothered to go on, but perhaps you get the point?

Dictionary definition: The repetition of initial sounds in adjacent words or syllales.

Also, google ‘Gerard Manley Hopkins.’ (English Victorian — or perhaps modern — poet who uses alliteration in his poems). Loch Lomond. Manly man. Rabid racoons. Scary sceptres. Tall timid towering trees.

This could go on forever. . . . I’m just trying to get to level 3 (no alliteration there!)

Chanique channels her chagrin by engaging in demanding deportment!

noun

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse;

“around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran”

“Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies” by Paul Mc Cann

Don’t delay dawns disarming display .

Dusk demands daylight .

Dewdrops dwell delicately

drawing dazzling delight .

Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.

Distinguished debutantes . Diamonds defray delivered

daylights distilled daisy dance .

Well,I made a lot.Hope you like it.

Alliteration:Repetition of consonant sound.

born by butcher broughtup by baker’s bread,

how high his highness holds his haughty head.