1. POETRY UNIT Sound Devices

2. Alliteration  The repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words  Ex: Luckily, Lucy loved licorice and lacked laryngitis.

3. Assonance  The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words  Remember, each vowel makes 2 sounds!  Ex: The child cried silently. Red rover, red rover, will Joe come over? Jane gave me her paper late.

4. Consonance  The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of stressed syllables  prove/love World’s strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead

5. Onomatopoeia  Words whose sound imitates its meaning  Ex: Buzz Hiss Moo Thud

6. Rhyme  The repetition of sounds at the ends of words Ex: Cat and Rat

7. Eye Rhyme  A similarity in spelling of words that do not sound alike and are pronounced differently  Ex: Watch/Hatch, Said/Paid, Stranger/Anger, Have/Save

8. End Rhyme  The rhyming of words at the end of lines  Ex: I saw a bird up in a tree It sang a lovely song for me

9. Internal Rhyme  The rhyming of words within a line of poetry  Ex: The sound when she hit the ground was deafening.

10. Rhyme Scheme  The regular pattern of end rhymes in a poem or stanza. You assign one letter of the alphabet to each rhyming sound. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, A The flying cloud, the frosty light: B The year is dying in the night; B Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. A