Examples Of Alliteration

Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around august.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Becky's beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy.

We felt dreary and dismal in the darkness of the night.

Carries cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.

She shouted and shooed the sheep to the shelter.

Dan's dog dove deep in the dam, drinking dirty water as he dove.

She sees sheep sleeping.

Show Shawn Sharon's shabby shoes.

Fred's friends fried Fritos for Friday's food.

Boil the butter and bring it by the bank.

Garry's giraffe gobbled gooseberry's greedily, getting good at grabbing goodies.

Hannah's home has heat hopefully.

Kim comes to cut colorful kites.

Baby Bobby bed bounced better by bedtime before Billy bounced.

Isaac's ice cream is interesting and Isaac is imbibing it.

Paula planted the petunias in the pot.

Jesse's jaguar is jumping and jiggling jauntily.

Kim's kid's kept kiting.

Larry's lizard likes leaping leopards.

The dog was dead as a doornail.

Mike's microphone made much music.

An ape ate Ace's acorn.

Cory collected cola cans counting continuously.

Orson's owl out-performed ostriches.

Bertha Bartholomew blew big, blue bubbles.

Peter's piglet pranced priggishly.

Zachary zeroed in on zoo keeping.

Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings, Leader beloved, and long he ruled in fame with all folk since his father
had gone.

Quincy's quilters quit quilting quickly.

Eric's eagle eats eggs, enjoying each episode of eating.

Ralph's reindeer rose rapidly and ran round the room

She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down to make a man to meet the mortal need. A man to match the mountains
and the sea, the friendly welcome of the wayside well.

Sara's seven sisters slept soundly in sand.

Larry's lizard likes leaping.

How glutted with gore he would guzzle his fill.

Tim's took tons of tools to make toys for tots.

The sibilant sermons of the snake as she discoursed upon the disposition of my sinner's soul seemed ceaseless.

We felt dreary and dismal in the darkness of the night.

Uncle Uris' united union uses umbrella's.

Behemoth, biggest born of earth, up-heaved His vastness.

My style is public negotiations for parity, rather than private negotiations for position.

Vivien's very vixen-like and vexing.

What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!

Cunningly creeping, a spectral stalker.

Walter walked wearily while wondering where Wally was.

Nick's nephew needed a new notebook.

Xavier's x-rayed his xylophone.

Their taut tails thrashing they twist in tribute to the titans.

Yarvis yanked you at yoga, and Yvonne yelled.

"Gee, Great Aunt Nellie, why aren't any golden goldfinches going to the goodies?" "Oh," said Aunt Nellie, "They thrive on
thistle and I thoroughly thought that I threw the thistle out there". - ('Thank you for the Thistle' by Dorie Thurston)

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

When far away an interrupted cry.

Bye, baby bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting, gone to get a rabbit skin, to wrap baby bunting in.

Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely breach'd his boiling bloody breast.

My style is public negotiations for parity, rather than private negotiations for position.

Zigmund Zane zig-zagged through the zany zoo zone.

The pleasant prince pleaded for peace.

See Sally sell seashells by the seashore.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet, when far away an interrupted cry came over houses from another street
(From the poem 'Acquainted With the Night' by Robert Frost)

Uri Udall usually used his unique, unusual unicycle.

Garry gathered the garbage.

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.

Sara's seven sisters slept soundly.

While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees'
cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze. - (Dr. Seuss "Fox in sock")

Julie Jackson juggled the juicy, jiggly jello.

Hattie Henderson hated happy healthy hippos.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy a novel by John Le Carre.

Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet, myriads of rivulets, hurrying through the lawn, the moan of doves in
immemorial elms, and murmuring of innumerable bees. - Alfred Tennyson

Deep into that darkness peering, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. - Edgar Ellen Poe

Here are some common examples of hyperboles:

I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

I have a million things to do.
I had to walk 15 miles to school in the snow, uphill.
I had a ton of homework.
If I cant buy that new game, I will die.
He is as skinny as a toothpick.
This car goes faster than the speed of light.
That new car costs a bazillion dollars.
We are so poor; we dont have two cents to rub together.
That joke is so old, the last time I heard it I was riding on a dinosaur.
They ran like greased lightning.
He's got tons of money.
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
Her brain is the size of a pea.
He is older than the hills.

Examples Of Hyperbole

Her brain is the size of a pea.

You snore louder than a freight train.

That joke is so old, the last time I heard it I was riding on a dinosaur.

I will die if she asks me to sing in front of everyone.

He is as big as a grown elephant!

His smile was a mile wide.

Her eyes were as wide as saucers.

His teeth were blinding white.

My car is a million years old.

I don't have two cents to spare.

The mountain of paperwork weighed heavily on the teacher's desk.

The ancient castle was so big that it took a week to walk from one end to the other.

The leaves danced in the summer breeze.

My sister uses so much makeup; she broke a chisel trying to get it off last night!

My teacher is so old; she gets a seniors discount at the nursing home.

My dog is so ugly, he only has cat friends!

The town I grew up in is so isolated; rock, paper, scissors is considered a high tech game.

My aunt is so fat that when she walks by the TV, I miss three shows.

She nearly drowned in her tears.

The gaping hole would have swallowed America.

I lost my sense of humor in 127 B.C, to be precise.

Her beauty eclipsed the sun.

Hyperbole Examples From Poems

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,

Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world."
By Ralph Waldo Emerson from "The Concord Hymn"

"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you

Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky."
By W.H. Auden on Endless Love "As I Walked Out One Evening," 1935

Hyperbole Examples In Prose

"A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy
and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County."
From 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee

"I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity."

From 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad

"He cried all night, and dawn found him still there, though his tears had dried and only hard, dry sobs shook his wooden
frame. But these were so loud that they could be heard by the faraway hills..."
From 'The Adventures of Pinocchio' by C. Collodi

Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow
turned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard. People had to wait
until sunup to find out what folks were talking about the night before.
From the opening of the American folktale 'Babe the Blue Ox'

At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the
16th century.
From 'Living To Tell The Tale' by Gabriel Garcia Mrquez,

Hyperboles Examples In Drama

"What hands are here? ha! They pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green one red."
From 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare

"...O brawling love, O loving hate,

anything, of nothing first create!
heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms..."
From 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare

"...he is sooner caught than the pestilence and the taker

runs presently mad."
From 'Much Ado About Nothing' by William Shakespeare

Hyperbole Examples From The Bible

"You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."

"The rock poured me out rivers of oil." (He had an abundance of good things).

"The cities are great, and walled up to heaven." (They were very high).

"Everyone could sling stones at a hair and not miss." (They were very accurate).

Behold, the world is gone after him." (The whole world at that time did NOT follow after him, but very large crowds in
Israel did).