Poetry: Continued Sound Devices
Alliteration The repetition of sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables-usually initial consonants Remember “We Real Cool”? We lurk late / We strike straight Gnaw / Know / Knew VS. Gnaw / Get
Assonance The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables May occur in either the beginning or middle of a word Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time. A hand that can be clasped no more- Behold me, for I cannot sleep.
Consonance The repetition of consonant sounds in two or more successive words or stressed syllables that contain different vowel sounds Opposite of assonance Alliteration is a specific type of consonance Leave thy vain bibble-babble The black sack is in the back.
Cacophony A harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds Often resulting from awkward alliteration The nasal whine of power whips a new universe…. Where spouting pillars spoor the evening sky, Of dynamos, where hearing’s leash is strummed Into the bulging bouillon, harnessed jelly of the stars.
And squared and stuck there squares of soft white chalk, And set up endwise certain spikes of tree, And crowned the whole with a sloth’s skull a-top
Onomatopoeia Using a word or phrase that seems to imitate the sound it represents Bang, Creak, Pop!
Homework Review “The Darkling Thrush” p.969 “ A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” p.955 “I heard a Fly buzz -When I died” p. 871 “Jabberwocky”