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1 Commonly used in poetry…
Sound Devices Commonly used in poetry…

2 Rhyme Rhyme is the repetition of similar or identical sounds. Rhyme serves to unify a poem and to reinforce its meaning. There are many types of rhyming schemes.

3 End Rhyme End rhyme is the rhyming of words at the end of lines of poetry. The rhyme scheme, or pattern of rhyme, can be charted as follows: The world is too much with us; late and soon, A Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: B Little we see in Nature that is ours; B We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! A

4 Internal Rhyme A poet may rhyme a word within a line with the word that ends it. This kind of rhyme can be used to achieve emphasis or variety within a line. For example: A year has gone, as the tortoise goes, Heavy and slow; And the same rose blows, and the same sun glows, And the same brook sings of a year ago. John Greenleaf Whittier from “Telling the Bees”

5 Assonance Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in stressed syllables or words. Example: Made and Mail. Both of these words have the ā sound. Example: And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side…

6 Consonance The close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowels.  We go together like ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong Remembered forever as shoo-bop sha whada whadda yippidy boom da boom Chang chang changity chang shoo bop that's the way it should be …Waooo Yeah

7 Repetition Repetition of a sound, word, or phrase is also a sound device. Repetition serves to unify a poem and emphasize important ideas. Let me see, then, what the threat is, and this mystery explore – Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore – Edgar Allan Poe from “The Raven”

8 Dissonance The juxtaposition of harsh jarring sounds in one or more lines. For example: And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!

9 Euphony Agreeable sounds that are easy to articulate. For example:
Hey hey, my my Rock and roll can never die There's more to the picture Than meets the eye. Hey hey, my my.


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