1. How many times can you say this TONGUE TWISTER without getting your tongue tangled?

2. BETTY BOTTER Betty Botter bought some butter.
“But,” she said, “the butter’s bitter.
If I put it in my batter,
it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter—
that would make my batter better.”

3. BETTY BOTTER So she bought a bit of butter,
better than her bitter butter.
And she put it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought
A bit of better butter!

4. What makes a tongue twister difficult to recite?

5. OBJECTIVES 1. Identify sound devices.
2. Differentiate rhyme, alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia.

6. Commonly used sound devices include:
used by writers to convey and reinforce meaning or the experience of literature through the skillful use of sound
Commonly used sound devices include:
Rhyme
Alliteration
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
increases the enjoyment of the reader and her appreciation for the work

7. RHYME
-- it is when the end or final sound of two or more words are identical
Example:
It seems like my heart skips a mile
Whenever you look at me and smile.

8. ALLITERATION
-- it is the repetition of the first/initial consonant sounds of words that are fairly close together
-- depends on sound, NOT spelling
Example: from Robert Frost’s Nothing Gold Can Stay
her hardest hue to hold

9. ASSONANCE -- it is the repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words
Example:
It beats…as it sweeps…as it cleans!

10. ONOMATOPOEIA
-- It is the use of words that imitates the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. Being able to use it will help your writing come alive!

11. ONOMATOPOEIA
Which of the following sentences creates a better picture?
There was a large tuba in the parade.
“Umpa-pa, umpa-pa,” went the large tuba in the parade.

12. ONOMATOPOEIA
-- it is simply a written word to represent noise or sound from the reality
water plops into pond
splish-splash downhill
warbling magpies in tree
trilling, melodic thrill
-- Lee Emmett

13. TRY THIS! Crack an egg. Stir the butter. Break the yolk.
Read the following lines and write R if it makes use of a rhyme, AL if alliteration, AS if assonance, and O if onomatopoeia.
Crack an egg. Stir the butter. Break the yolk.
Stoke the heat. Hear it sizzle. Shake the salt.
2. Pomegranate pumper nickel
Peach pimento pizza plum,
Peanut pumpkin bubblegum.
3. “the moon as soon as Balbue began to croon”

14. TRY THIS!
Read the following poem in the next slide. Examine how sound devices put special flavor in the poem. Look for rhymes, alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia and write them down in your notebook.

15. TRY THIS! “Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze!
That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze “ACHOO! A-CHOO!”
But these three fleas still flew away,
With their BUZZZZZ! BUZZZZZ!
Coupled with ACHOO! A-CHOO! A-CHOO!
- adapted from Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss

16. References: CALLIOPE by Barday Lipson, Ed.D.