All About Alliteration
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All about Alliteration
Leo Selivan
British Council
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Examples
No rhyme or reason safe and sound It’s now or never down in the dumps turn the tables part and parcel peer pressure
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Nursery rhymes
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Betty Botter bought some butter
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
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In poetry
Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?
William Blake “The Tyger”
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
A hurry of hoofs in a village street,A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a sparkStruck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet;
H. W. Longfellow “Paul Revere’s Ride”
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Harry PotterSalazar SlytherinHelga HufflepuffCho ChangGodric GryffindorBathilda BagshotGellert GrindelwaldDedalus DiggleDinky DuddydumsPansy Parkinson
About 1/3 of the names alliterateAbout 1/3 chapter titles alliterate
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Two types
Assonance
Jump the gun
Say a prayer
Consonance
Betty Botter
Ready made
Alliteration in its
traditional sense
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Why use?
Memorable
Fun
Creative writing
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B & B
Bed & breakfast Baby blues Baby boom Bargain basement Beer belly Beach bum The Big Bang “Bend it like Beckham”
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In the media
Bed & brawl for British tourists
Party Like Paris Hilton
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More examples
Lexicalise your Lesson Collocation Corpus Classroom Connect! Communicate! Collaborate! Recycling & Revising Lexis
“in the classrooms of Berlin, Bangkok, and Beersheva, English is everywhere” (Bagrut paper)
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Other uses Popular culture
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck
Brand names“Coffee Corner", "Sushi Station", "Best Buy”, ”Dunkin’ donuts”, “Weight Watchers”
Advertising slogans“Guinness is good for you”“Put a tiger in your tank”"The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand."
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Research on retaining
Easier to remember
Seek + sanctuary / settlement / solution / solace / solitude / support / asylym
Look for + /s/-nouns?
Only 1 (solution)
Lindstromberg & Boers (2005)
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Some statistics
about 40 % of similes alliterate
cool as a cucumber
fit as a fiddle
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Why so frequent in English?
Word order (SVO)
Few inflections (take-takes-taking-took-taken)
Word stress (often on the first syllable)
Lack of good rhymes (?)
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Research (cont.)
Multi-word expressions that alliterate are more memorable
Can be used as mnemonic
Boers, F. & Lindstromberg, S. (2005)
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Personal experience
Students remember alliterated chunks better
She’s so prim and proper I was scared stiff It’s a slippery slope
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Common collocations
somewhat similar (2nd most common) fundamentally flawed (2nd most common) fatally flawed (most common) increasingly important (2nd most common) deadly dull (3rrd most common) badly bruised (2nd most common) / badly broken –
also common strangely silent (most common)
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Common collocations (cont.)
fully fledged deeply disappointed particularly popular surprisingly strong / surprisingly small simply stunning / simply splendid / simply superb distinctly different / dramatically different poorly planned / poorly protected
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Classroom ideas
Alliterated personality adjectives - nicknames
e.g. Lexical Leo Newspaper headlines Make your own travel guides / brochures Look at songs, especially rap Make up twisters about famous people Make up slogans for products you use Highlight alliteration when teaching chunks
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Song
How many alliterated words can you find?
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References
Boers, F. & Lindstromberg, S. (2005). Finding ways to make phrase-learning feasible: The mnemonic effect of alliteration. System, 33(2), 225-238
Lindstromberg, S. & Boers, F. (2005).Means ofmass memorization of multi-word expressions. Humanising Language Teaching, 7(1)http://www.hltmag.co.uk/jan05/mart03.htm