1. Pitter patter… pitter patter
Sound Devices
Pitter patter… pitter patter

2. 1. Alliteration Meaning Example
The repetition of the initial consonant sound
Example
Some silly students sing sad songs.

3. 2. Onomatopoeia Meaning Example
The use of words that sound like their meaning.
Example
Woof
Boom
Hiss
Buzz

4. 3. Rhyme Meaning Example The repetition of similar sounds
The sounds are not always exactly the same
The spelling does not have to be the same
Example
Thinking , linking
Bake, cake
Frog, hog
High, sky

5. 4. Assonance Meaning Example
The repetition of vowel sounds within words
Example
How is the brown cow bowing down?

6. 5. Rhythm Meaning Example
Beat created by putting emphasis on some syllables
Example
My mother ate an apple and my father ate a pear.
Can you hear that every other syllable was stressed? 
my MOTH-er ATE an AP-ple AND my FATH-er ATE a PEAR.

7. 6. Repetition Meaning Example
The use of a word, phrase, sound, or line more than once
Example
The rain makes still pools on
the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools
in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our
roof at night-
And I love the rain.
-from “April Rain Song” by Langston Hughes

8. 7. Rhyme Scheme Meaning Example
A pattern of rhyme that stays the same throughout a poem
The lines that rhyme are labeled with the same letter
Example
Under a spreading chestnut-tree a
The village smithy stands; b
The smith, a mighty man is he, a
With large and sinewy hands; b
-from “Village Blacksmith” by Henry W. Longfellow