Sound devices practice
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This document discusses various sound devices used in poetry including onomatopoeia, repetition, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, and consonance. It provides examples for each device. The document concludes with short poems and asks the reader to identify which sound devices are used in each poem, with the answers provided.
Sound devices practice
- 1. Sound Devices The characteristics of poetry
- 2. Onomatopoeia When a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound. Examples Buzz Hiss Beep Fizz Clink Vroom Woof Boom Zip
- 3. Repetition Repeating a word or words for effect. Example Nobody No, nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
- 4. Rhythm When words are arranged in such a way that they make a pattern or beat. Example There once was a girl from Chicago Who dyed her hair pink in the bathtub I’m making a pizza the size of the sun. Hint: hum the words instead of saying them.
- 5. Rhyme When words have the same end sound. Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines. Examples Where Fair Air Bear Glare
- 6. Alliteration When the first sounds in words repeat. Example Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper. We lurk late. We shoot straight.
- 7. Consonance When consonants repeat in the middle or end of words. Vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. Consonants: all other letters. Examples Mammels named Sam are clammy. Curse, bless me now! With fierce tears I prey.
- 8. Practice Quiz I’ll put some lines of poetry on the board. Write down which techniques are used: Alliteration, consonance, rhythm, rhyme, and onomatopoeia. Some poems use more than one technique.
- 9. 1 The cuckoo in our cuckoo clock was wedded to an octopus. She laid a single wooden egg and hatched a cuckoocloctopus.
- 10. 2 They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds, the hammers pounding in nails, thack thack thack thack, and then I hear birds, and thack thack thack,
- 11. 3 very little love is not so bad or very little life what counts is waiting on walls I was born for this I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.
- 12. 4 Homework! Oh, homework! I hate you! You stink! I wish I could wash you away in the sink.
- 13. Answers 1. Repetition, rhythm, rhyme, consonance, and light alliteration. 2. Onomatopoeia, consonance, repetition 3. Alliteration, repetition 4. Repetition, rhyme, rhythm