1. Bell Ringer Activity
How do you feel about poetry? If you like it, tell me why. If you don’t like it, tell me why not?
Record your answers on the worksheet provided.
Keep the worksheet in your notebook, it will be graded!

2. Mrs. Harris

3. 10th Grade Literature October 23, 2012
Sound Devices
10th Grade Literature
October 23, 2012

4. CCGPS Standards
ELACC9-10L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context and analyze their role in the text.
b. Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.
ELACC9-10L6: Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

5. What is a sound device?
Sound devices are resources used by poets to convey meaning through the skillful use of sound.
Poets use sound and imagery to create an emotional response.

6. Alliteration
The repetition of initial consonant sounds: Porky Pig ate a platter of pot roast

7. Example of Alliteration
Excerpt from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost 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.

8. The repetition of vowel sounds within words: goat, bowl, scold
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds within words: goat, bowl, scold
Examples are harder to find and are more subtle than the other devices
Often used to “set the mood” in a poem.

9. Example of Assonance
“West Beast East Beast” by Dr. Seuss Upon an island hard to reach, The East Beast sits upon his beach. Upon the west beach sits the West Beast. Each beach beast thinks he's the best beast. Which beast is best?...Well, I thought at first, That the East was best and the West was worst. Then I looked again from the west to the east And I liked the beast on the east beach least.

10. Consonance
The repetition of sounds within or at the end of words: butler, antler, battler

11. Example of Consonance
Excerpt from “Zealots” By the Fugees (Lauryn Hill) Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile, Many styles, More powerful than gamma rays My grammar pays, like Carlos Santana plays

12. The use of words that sound like what they refer to: clop, bang, thud
Onomatopoeia
The use of words that sound like what they refer to: clop, bang, thud

13. Example of Onomatopoeia
Excerpt from “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme,

14. Review
Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds: Porky Pig ate a platter of pot roast
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds within words: goat, bowl, scold
Consonance: The repitition of sounds within or at the end of words: butler, antler, battler
Onomatopoeia: The use of words that sound like what they refer to: clop, bang, thud

15. Practice
Read the following lines of poetry and identify examples of sound devices:
Water rushing, / gushing, / pushing / past the limits of the edge.
Water barrels off the ledge, / whipping up the bottom sludge,

16. Practice
BUTTER BRICKLE PEPPER PICKLE POMEGRANATE PUMPERNICKEL PEACH PIMENTO PIZZA PLUM PEANUT PUMPKIN BUBBLEGUM

17. Practice Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
– “Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night” by Dylan Thomas

18. Your Turn!

19. Vocabulary List Patrician (n) an aristocrat
Emissary (n) one sent on a special mission to represent
Fracas (n) a loud quarrel or fight
Lacerate (v) to tear (flesh) jaggedly
Futile (adj) useless; pointless
Carp (v) to complain or find fault in a petty or nagging way
Query (v) to ask; to inquire
Nefarious (adj) very wicked; notorious
Genesis (n) beginning; origin
Façade (n) a deceptive outward appearance; a misrepresentation

20. Continue reading “Night”

21. The Daily Rewind Essential Questions: What are sound devices?
How will understanding sound devices help me understand poetry better?
What are some different types of sound devices?
What are some examples of sound devices?
How do sound devices affect the mood of a poem?

22. Exit Slip Have a great day!
Write down your favorite sound device and an example of that device on the index card provided.
Bonus points if you spell it correctly!! 
Give your exit slip to Mrs. Harris before you leave.
Have a great day!