LEARNING INTENTION: TO LEARN SOUND DEVICES IN POETRY

AND BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THEM

Poetry: Sound Devices

Verbal Language Features- SOUND

1. Alliteration2. Assonance3. Consonance4. Rhyme5. Rhyme Scheme6. Onomatopoeia

Why do we use them?

Sound devices are used because:

they sound good!!Entertaininghelp communicate ideas orallysounds reflect the tone or feeling of a Poem.

Alliteration

Alliteration is the repetition of a letter or sound at the start of words

Example: whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade he bravely broached his bloody boiling breast

- Shakespeare

What is Alliteration?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmgo_c8buwAABCs…with Harry Potterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKdV5FvXLuI

Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme

Rhyme is when words end in the same sound. It is used because it sounds good and helps memorisation.

Example: pack snacksachievable believable receivable

Rhyme Scheme is the pattern of which lines rhyme. A letter represents the sound a line ends with.

Example: Bid me to weep, and I will weep AWhile I have eyes to see; BAnd having none, and yet I will keep A

A heart to weep for thee. B

Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia echoes the sound and are spelled like the noise they describe

Example: meow! POW! screech, howl, Twang

Superheroes use onomatopoeia:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiwIE_sGWAghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQYU8UEgudQ

Assonance

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in words. (a, e, i, o, u)

Example: How now brown cow It beats as it sweeps as it cleans

Consonance

Consonance is the repetition of consonant (b, c, d, f, g, h, j, etc) sounds in words- in the middle and end

Example: I was struck with a streak of cheeky bad luck.