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Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds. This poem also uses assonance which is the repetition of vowel sounds.

                                  
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Animal Adjective Alliteration
© Rudolph 2009 

At the Zany Zoo I saw 

An ambitious, aspiring,  alligator 

A barbarous, brawny, bizarre boar 

A cheerful, chunky, chubby cheetah 

A dizzy, dashing, dazzling duck 

An energetic, entertaining, elated elephant 

A funny, fabulous, flashy fox 

A gregarious, gabby, giddy gorilla 

A huge, hulking, healthy horse 

An icky, idiotic, ignorant iguana 

A jazzy, jolly, joyous jaguar

A keen, kindhearted kangaroo 

A large, lively, lethal lion 

A miniature, macho, magical monkey

A nasty, nauseating, noxious numbat 

An old, odd, orange ostrich 

A petite, puffy, purple peacock 

A quick, quixotic, quizzical quail 

A robust, red, rabid, rhinoceros 

A slow, smelly, sloppy, sloth 

A tall, testy, tough tiger 

A vicious, voracious, vulgar vulture 

A watchful, wary, warlike wolf 

A young, yellow yak 

And a zany, zippy, zealous zebra
 
by,
                                                    Christopher Rudolph