4-10 Sound Devices

Sound Device

Create musical effects through language

Repetition

Repeating a sound, word, phrase, sentence or group of lines

Example: run, run, run

Alliteration

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Example: big blue bears bellowed

Consonance

The repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of words

Example: tick tock

Assonance

The repetition of vowel sounds in a word

Example: black cat

Onomatopoeia

Words that sound like what they mean

Example: bark, meow, honk

Rhyme

The repetition of sounds at the end of words

Example: dog, bog, clog

End Rhymes

Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry

Example:

I was mad

He was sad

Internal Rhyme

Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry

Example: Falling leaves whirl and twirl

The branches of trees sway in the breezeWhat a wonderful day

What is rhyme scheme?

Regular pattern of end rhymes We mark them using letters

Dreams by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreamsFor when dreams goLife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow.

Summer1 I like hot days, hot days2 Sweat is what you got days3 Bugs buzzin from cousin to cousin4 Juices dripping5 Running and ripping6 Catch the one you love days 7 Birds peeping8 Old men sleeping9 Lazy days, daisies lay10 Beaming and dreaming11 Of hot days, hot days,12 Sweat is what you got days.                                - Walter Dean Myers

Open your If A Tree Falls to page 144, ch. 38

The A.M.By Mrs. Hickner- Johnson (aka sweetest poet in school)

Morning, Morning

A tough time of day

Everyone’s working, sulking, running, rushing

No one’s at play

My neighbor’s taking the last sack of trash

To his driveway

Vroom, Vroom

The school bus leaves

Everyone’s thinking, blinking, wishing, worrying

About their own needs

Alliteration is repetition of consonant sounds at the

________of words.

Consonance is the repetition of ___________sounds at the end

of words.

An example of consonance might be________. (Make one

up.)

An example of assonance might be_______.

Onomatopoeia has to do with________.