4-10 Sound Devices

Sound Device Create musical effects through language

Repetition Repeating a sound, word, phrase, sentence or group of lines Example: run, run, run

Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words Example: big blue bears bellowed

Consonance The repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of words Example: tick tock

Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds in a word Example: black cat

Onomatopoeia Words that sound like what they mean Example: bark, meow, honk

Rhyme The repetition of sounds at the end of words Example: dog, bog, clog

End Rhymes Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry Example: I was mad He was sad

Internal Rhyme Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry Example: Falling leaves whirl and twirl The branches of trees sway in the breeze What a wonderful day

What is rhyme scheme? Regular pattern of end rhymes We mark them using letters Dreams by Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Summer 1 I like hot days, hot days 2 Sweat is what you got days 3 Bugs buzzin from cousin to cousin 4 Juices dripping 5 Running and ripping 6 Catch the one you love days   7 Birds peeping 8 Old men sleeping 9 Lazy days, daisies lay 10 Beaming and dreaming 11 Of hot days, hot days, 12 Sweat is what you got days.                                 - Walter Dean Myers

Open your If A Tree Falls to page 144, ch. 38

By Mrs. Hickner- Johnson (aka sweetest poet in school) The A.M. By Mrs. Hickner- Johnson (aka sweetest poet in school) Morning, Morning A tough time of day Everyone’s working, sulking, running, rushing No one’s at play My neighbor’s taking the last sack of trash To his driveway Vroom, Vroom The school bus leaves Everyone’s thinking, blinking, wishing, worrying About their own needs

Alliteration is repetition of consonant sounds at the ________of words.

Consonance is the repetition of ___________sounds at the end of words.

An example of consonance might be________. (Make one up.)

An example of assonance might be_______.

Onomatopoeia has to do with________.