LEARNING INTENTION: TO LEARN SOUND DEVICES IN POETRY AND BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THEM Poetry: Sound Devices
Verbal Language Features- SOUND 1. Alliteration 2. Assonance 3. Consonance 4. Rhyme 5. Rhyme Scheme 6. Onomatopoeia
Why do we use them? Sound devices are used because: they sound good!! Entertaining help communicate ideas orally sounds reflect the tone or feeling of a Poem.
Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of a letter or sound at the start of words Example: whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade he bravely broached his bloody boiling breast - Shakespeare What is Alliteration? ABCs…with Harry Potter
Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme Rhyme is when words end in the same sound. It is used because it sounds good and helps memorisation. Example: pack snacks achievable believable receivable Rhyme Scheme is the pattern of which lines rhyme. A letter represents the sound a line ends with. Example: Bid me to weep, and I will weep A While I have eyes to see; B And having none, and yet I will keep A A heart to weep for thee. B
Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia echoes the sound and are spelled like the noise they describe Example: meow! POW! screech, howl, Twang Superheroes use onomatopoeia:
Assonance Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in words. (a, e, i, o, u) Example: How now brown cow It beats as it sweeps as it cleans
Consonance Consonance is the repetition of consonant (b, c, d, f, g, h, j, etc) sounds in words- in the middle and end Example: I was struck with a streak of cheeky bad luck.