Arranging WORDS to create specific SOUNDS Sound Devices Arranging WORDS to create specific SOUNDS
Repetition Repeating the same WORD or PHRASE (not sound) close together in writing The purpose is to EMPHASIZE a point Water, water everywhere And all the boards did shrink, And not a drop to drink
Onomatopoeia Examples of the onomatopoeia: Bang, went the gun! Swoosh went the basketball through the hoop.
Alliteration A poetic device which repeats the same beginning sound for effect. Examples of Alliteration: Sally Sells Seashells By The Sea Shore Rolling, Racing, Roaring, Rapids
Rhyme Listen my children and you shall hear Repeating the same ending sound Must be a WHOLE sound There are 4 kinds of Rhyme Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
End Rhyme Rhyme at the END of two or more lines of poetry Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April in seventy-five, Hardly a man is still alive Who remembers that famous day and year.
Visual Rhyme Words that LOOK like they should rhyme but do not share the same sound. Again - Rain Food - Good Cough - Rough Death - Wreath
Internal Rhyme Rhyme WITHIN ONE line of poetry “Sticks and stones may break my bones” “And slowly he climbed, a foot at a time, And his engine coughed as he whispered soft,”
Near (Slant) Rhyme Words do not share the exact sound but are similar enough to stretch the rhyme “I stood cold and alone in the dark Holding nothing but my broken heart.”
Try it out… What sound devices do you hear in the following clip? Flocabulary
Time to PRACTICE! Read the poem “Truth” located at the bottom of your sound devices. Identify all examples of the SOUND DEVICES that are used. Mark them on your poem… Be sure to write which device you see!
Sticks and stones may break my bones, (Alliteration: Sticks/Stones break/bones Internal Rhyme: stones/bones) but words can also hurt me. (near rhyme – words/hurt) Stones and sticks break only skin, (Alliteration: stones/sticks/skin) while words are ghosts that haunt me. (Alliteration: while/words) Repetition: Sticks/Stones/Me
Slant and curved the word-swords fall to pierce and stick inside me. (near rhyme: curved/word Visual rhyme: word/sword) to pierce and stick inside me. Bats and bricks may ache through bones, (Alliteration: bats/bricks/bones Assonance: may/ache… I know we haven’t covered this yet!) but words can mortify me. (Alliteration: mortify me) Repetition: Me
Pain from words has left its scar on mind and heart that’s tender. Cuts and bruises now have healed; (alliteration: have/healed) it’s words that I remember. End/Near Rhyme: Tender/Remember