What Is Alliteration?

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9. Fox in Socks

Though the spelling of this Dr. Seuss book is not reflective of alliteration, sounding out the words demonstrates how similar sounding the end of the words “fox” and “socks” are. The book also has many examples of alliteration with lines such as “Luke Lick likes lakes” and “Six sick bricks tick.”

These many rhythmic tongue twisters are used to describe the interactions between the two main characters, whose names Fox and Knox illustrate consonance as well. The Fox character seems to take great pleasure in using alliterations to confuse Knox, who ultimately imprisons him in a bottle and ends the tale with his own tongue twister.

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