Onomatopoeia & Alliteration Writing Exercize

One of the things that comes up in my beginners writing class is what does onomatopoeia and alliteration mean.

Onomatopoeia:   A word that sounds like what it means, like “sizzle” or “hiss” or “slurp.”  It is pronounced like onna-matta-peeya.

Alliteration:  “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” is an alliterative sentence.

Now let’s have some fun.  Write a paragraph to a page of narrative that is meant to be read aloud.  Use onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition, made up words or names, dialect, rhymic effects — any kind of sound you like — but not rhyme or meter.  It must be prose – if prose develops meter for more than a few words in a row, it turns into poetry.

Give it a shot and post it.  I would love to read the results and I bet others would too.

Kathy 

PS: What word in the picture is the onomatopoeia word?