1. Poetry: Continued
Sound Devices

2. Alliteration
The repetition of sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables-usually initial consonants
Remember “We Real Cool”?
We lurk late / We strike straight
Gnaw / Know / Knew VS. Gnaw / Get

3. Assonance
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables
May occur in either the beginning or middle of a word
Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster child of silence and slow time.
A hand that can be clasped no more-
Behold me, for I cannot sleep.

4. Consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds in two or more successive words or stressed syllables that contain different vowel sounds
Opposite of assonance
Alliteration is a specific type of consonance
Leave thy vain bibble-babble
The black sack is in the back.

5. Cacophony
A harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds
Often resulting from awkward alliteration
The nasal whine of power whips a new universe…. Where spouting pillars spoor the evening sky,
Of dynamos, where hearing’s leash is strummed
Into the bulging bouillon, harnessed jelly of the stars.

6. And squared and stuck there squares of soft white chalk, And set up endwise certain spikes of tree, And crowned the whole with a sloth’s skull a-top

7. Onomatopoeia
Using a word or phrase that seems to imitate the sound it represents
Bang, Creak, Pop!

8. Homework Review “The Darkling Thrush” p.969
“ A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” p.955
“I heard a Fly buzz -When I died” p. 871
“Jabberwocky”