Repetition words phrases or lines are repeatedto serve

Repetition - words, phrases, or lines are repeatedto serve a purpose

Song 1 I'm only one call away I'll be there to save the day Superman got nothing on me I'm only one call away

Song 2 You were my strength when I was weak You were my voice when I couldn't speak You were my eyes when I couldn't see You saw the best there was in me

Song 3 When you hold me in the street And you kiss me on the dance floor I wish that it could be like that Why can't it be like that? 'Cause I'm yours

Song 4 Because of you I never stray too far from the sidewalk Because of you I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt Because of you I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me Because of you, I am afraid

Song 5 If I got locked away and we lost it all today Tell me honestly would you still love me the same If I showed you my flaws if I couldn’t be strong Tell me honestly would you still love me the same

Repetition - purpose: used by poets to make sure that their words remain in the readers’ mind

Reading Time! Read your module on p. 12 (alliteration, Assonance, or Consonance).

Activity Find the dominant letters being repeated. Then Determine if it is alliteration, Assonance, or Consonance.

1) Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. But if Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore then where are the sea shells Sally sells?

2) Really very weary, really very weary, . . .

3) How many boards Could the Mongols hoard If the Mongol hordes got bored?

4) Really leery, rarely Larry.

5) A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

6) The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

7) Mud bug, mud bug

8) Aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum, aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum

9) While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows wit warm washing water.

ANSWERS

1) Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. But if Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore then where are the sea shells Sally sells?

Alliteration 1) Sally sells sea shells by thesea shore. But if. Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore then where are the sea shells Sally sells?

2) Really very weary, really very weary, . . .

CONSONANCE 2) Really very weary, really very weary, . . .

3) How many boards Could the Mongols hoard If the Mongol hordes got bored?

Assonance 3) How many boards Could the Mongols hoard If the Mongol hordes got bored?

4) Really leery, rarely Larry.

Consonance 4) Really leery, rarely Larry.

5) A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

Assonance 5) A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

6) The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

Alliteration 6) The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout. Thursday.

7) Mud bug, mud bug

Assonance 7) Mud bug, mud bug

8) Aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum, aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum

Consonance 8) Aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum, aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum

9) While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows wit warm washing water.

Alliteration 9) While we were walking, we were watchingwindow washers wash Washington'swindowswith warm washingwater. The End