Middle schoolers are asked to identify the alliteration used in John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, Emily Dickinson's "May-Flower," and a passage from Robert Lewis Stevenson's Kidnapped.

Concepts

rhetorical devices, alliteration, rhetoric

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Consider expanding the lesson and asking readers to consider why the writer may have chosen to use this rhetorical device

Classroom Considerations

• The worksheet is intended to model that alliteration my be found in many genres 

Pros

• The packet includes an answer key

Cons

• Readers can skim the material searching only for the alliterative letters; therefore, consider adding questions that may be answered by a close reading of the text and several that require analysis of the texts

Common Core

RL.6.5 RL.7.5 RL.8.5