Sound Devices in Poetry

The repetition of a vowel sound is called Onomatopoeia Alliteration Assonance consonance

The repetition of a sound at the beginning of the word is Assonance Consonance Alliteration rhyme

The repetition of a sound at the end of the word is called Onomatopoeia Alliteration Assonance rhyme

The repetition of a sound at the beginning of the word is Assonance Onomatopoeia Alliteration Consonance

The repetition of a consonant sound is called Onomatopoeia Consonance alliteration

Listen as I read the following poem: Hear the sleighs with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

On a piece of paper, jot down your initial reaction

Now, on the back of that paper, create the following chart: Sound Device Specific Example Effect it creates

Listen as I read the next section of this poem: Hear the mellow wedding bells - Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future! -how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

Let’s fill out the chart together: Sound Device Specific Example Effect it creates

What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats This highlighted portions of this poem are best representing which sound device? Assonance Consonance Alliteration rhyme

Listen as I read the next section: Hear the loud alarum bells - Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire, Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor Now -now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells - Of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!

Take a few moments to add to your chart for this section.

What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! The highlighted portion of these lines best represents which sound device: Assonance Rhyme Alliteration Consonance

Listen as I read the rest of this poem Hear the tolling of the bells - Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people -ah, the people - They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone - They are neither man nor woman - They are neither brute nor human - They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells! And his merry bosom swells With the paean of the bells! And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the paean of the bells, Of the bells - Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells - To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells - To the tolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls Which sound device is represented in the highlighted words above? Assonance Consonance Alliteration Onomatopoeia

Class Brain Storm: What are some of the effects that the sound devices had on this poem?

Choose one of the following assignments to complete in the next 15 minutes. Write one paragraph that discusses the author’s purpose in using sound devices in this poem and what the effect the sound devices had on the reader’s (your) experience with the poem. This should be 5-7 sentences, including a topic sentence, supporting details, and your interpretation. OR Write a poem of your own that includes EACH of the sound devices we’ve discussed today.

anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings   anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did. Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed (but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew autumn winter spring summer) that noone loved him more by more when by now and tree by leaf she laughed his joy she cried his grief bird by snow and stir by still anyone's any was all to her someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then)they said their nevers they slept their dream stars rain sun moon (and only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down) one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april with by spirit and if by yes. Women and men (both dong and ding) summer autumn winter spring reaped their sowing and went their came sun moon stars rain