4-10 Sound Devices
Sound Device
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Create musical effects through
language
Repetition
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Repeating a sound, word, phrase,
sentence or group of lines
Example: run, run, run
Alliteration
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The repetition of consonant sounds at
the beginning of words
Example: big blue bears bellowed
Consonance
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The repetition of consonant sounds at
the ends of words
Example: tick tock
Assonance
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The repetition of vowel sounds in a
word
Example: black cat
Onomatopoeia
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Words that sound like what they mean
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Example: bark, meow, honk
Rhyme
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The repetition of sounds at the end of
words
Example: dog, bog, clog
End Rhymes
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Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line
of poetry
Example:
I was mad
He was sad
Internal Rhyme
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Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry
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Example: Falling leaves whirl and twirl
The branches of trees sway in the breeze
What a wonderful day
What is rhyme scheme?
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Regular pattern of end rhymes
We mark them using letters
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Summer
1 I like hot days, hot days
2 Sweat is what you got days
3 Bugs buzzin from cousin to cousin
4 Juices dripping
5 Running and ripping
6 Catch the one you love days
7 Birds peeping
8 Old men sleeping
9 Lazy days, daisies lay
10 Beaming and dreaming
11 Of hot days, hot days,
12 Sweat is what you got days.
- Walter Dean Myers
Open your If A Tree Falls to page 144, ch.
38
The A.M.
By Mrs. Hickner- Johnson (aka sweetest poet in school)
Morning, Morning
A tough time of day
Everyone’s working, sulking, running, rushing
No one’s at play
My neighbor’s taking the last sack of trash
To his driveway
Vroom, Vroom
The school bus leaves
Everyone’s thinking, blinking, wishing, worrying
About their own needs
Alliteration is repetition of
consonant sounds at the
________of words.
Consonance is the repetition of
___________sounds at the end
of words.
An example of consonance
might be________. (Make one
up.)
An example of assonance might
be_______.
Onomatopoeia has to do
with________.