Alliteration Rapid Fire Quiz

Which of the following is an example of an alliteration?

• Fish bone

• Wish bone

• Dancing fish

• Frozen fish

Which of the following phrases includes an alliteration?

• Suffering succotash!

• Tally ho!

• Geronimo!

• O.M.G.!

Which of the following is a good example of an alliteration?

• Sonnet

• Tongue Twister

• Limerick

• Fable

Which of the following lines contains an alliteration?

• If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire.

• Donald heard a mermaid sing.

• One crying and spying young sister for sale!

• Frogs dwell here and crickets too.

Which line from the Shel Silverstein poem “Enter this Deserted House” has an alliteration?

• Frogs dwell here and crickets too.

• Ain’t no ceiling, only blue.

• Jays dwell here and sunbeams, too.

• Floors are flowers—take a few.

In the poem, “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout” by Shel Silverstein, which two of the following lines contain alliteration?

1. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout

2. Would not take the garbage out!

3. She’d scour the pots and scrape the pans

4. Candy the yams and spice the hams.

• Both 1 and 2

• Both 3 and 4

• Both 1 and 3

• Both 2 and 4

Fill in the blank to complete the alliteration. “She sells seashells by the ______.”

• Elm Trees

• Ocean

• Market

• Seashore

Fill in the blank to complete the alliteration. “Monkey in the _____”

• Zoo

• Middle

• Bananas

• Jungle

Which words in the following lines of poetry are examples of alliteration? (All the words in the answer must be examples of alliteration.)

Moldy melons, dried up mustard,

Eggshells mixed with lemon custard,

• Dried up mustard, lemon custard

• Moldy, dried up, lemon

• Moldy, melons, mustard, mixed

• Moldy, eggshells

Why would an author use alliteration in his or her writing?

• It gives text and poetry a more musical feel.

• Because alliteration words are action words.

• To give objects human characteristics.

• It’s easier than rhyming.