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Literary Devices for Sound
There are several literary devices that affect the sound of the author’s words. Here are 3 that are very similar:
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Definition: the repetition of consonant sounds
Definition: the repetition of vowel sounds
Definition: the repetition of consonant sounds
at the beginning of words in a string of words.
within words that are near each other.
anywhere in the words that are near each other.
The sound can occur at the beginning middle and
end.
Example: “The fair breeze blew, the
Example: “He gives his harness bells
Example: “So, he took some tacks and
white foam flew,
a shake
some new thick skin,
The furrow followed free;
to ask if there is some mistake.
And quick as quick could be,
We were the first that ever burst
The only other sound’s the sweep,
He stitched and he clipped,
Into that silent sea.”
Of easy wind and downy flake.”
And he glued and he snipped,
The Rime of the Ancient
And he shined ‘em up for me.”
Mariner
Stopping by the Woods on
a Snowy Evening
Excerpt from:
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by Robert Frost
by Shel Silverstein
WHY?: Affects letters have:
Soft sounds calm the reader or slow down the
poem.
Loud quick sounds can liven the reader or speed
up the tempo of the poem.
WHY?: Affects letters have:
Long vowel sounds cause the reader to have a
more depressed or serious mood.
WHY?: Affects letters have:
Soft sounds calm the reader or slow down the
poem.
Loud quick sounds can liven the reader or speed
up the tempo of the poem.
Excerpt from:
Excerpt from:
Foot Repair