1. Mrs. Ferrell Mitchell Elementary
Sound Devices
Mrs. Ferrell
Mitchell Elementary

2. What are sound devices in literature?
It is the sounds that the writer chooses when he is writing. Certain sounds get our attention or draw certain emotions.
Alliteration
Rhyme
Repetition
Rhythm

3. What are those things? What is alliteration?
It’s the repetition of consonant sounds.
What is rhyme?
It’s words that have the same ending sound.
What is repetition?
It’s when words or groups of words are used over again.
What is rhythm?
It’s the beat of the poem, just like music has a beat.

4. From Frost’s “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To Watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep.

5. From “The Raven” by Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more."