Sound Devices

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Sound Devicesproducing music in poetry

• Alliteration the repetition of beginning
  consonant sounds in two or more words near each
  other
• I have stood still and stopped the sound of
  feet
• or
• For the moon never beams without bringing me
  dreams
• Of the beautiful Annabel Lee

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• Assonance when the vowel sound is repeated in
  the middle of more than one word where the other
  sounds are different
• And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the
  side
• Of my darling my darling my life and my
  bride.
• Which of these is an example of assonance?
• 1. wine, dine
• 2. wine, pie

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• Consonance when the consonant sound is repeated
  at the end of words and the vowel sounds are
  different
• Examples hot and cat or young and
  strong
• What a tale their terror tells
• Which of these examples is consonance?
• a. sat, cat
• b. sat, pit

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• Diction a writers choice of words
• Formal, informal, slang, poetic, ornate,
  abstract, etc.
• Identify the diction
• You are all kindness, Madame but we must abide
  by our original plan. (Pride Prejudice)
• Aint everybodys daddy the deadest shot in
  Maycomb County? (To Kill a Mockingbird)

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Iambic Pentameter The Art of the Poet

• 10-syllable lines of rhymed, unstressed/stress
  meter. The stressed syllables are purple.
• Tis three oclock and, Romans, yet ere night
• We shall try fortune in a second fight
• FYI Shakespeares plays are about 90 verse
  and 6 prose

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Label the unstressed/stressed syllables

• And after this let Caesar seat him sure
• For we will shake him, or worse days endure.
• Cassius I.ii.321-322
• When iambic pentameter is read out loud it will
  follow a beat such as da DUM, da-DUM or
  toe-heel, toe-heel

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Rhythm Meter

• Meter regular rhythm involving stressed and
  unstressed syllables
• Types of Feet
• Iamb - / Anapest - - /
• Trochee / - Dactyl / - -
• Spondee / /
• Each of these are one metrical foot
• Label the meter in each of these lines
• Because I could not stop for death
• He kindly stopped for me.

Types of Meter Dimeter 2 feet Tetrameter 4
feet Trimeter 3 feet Pentameter 5 feet
iambic tetrameter iambic trimeter
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• Poetry scansion when you mark the syllables and
  the rhyme scheme

Hickory Dickory Dock,The mouse ran up the
clock.The clock struck one,The mouse ran
down!Hickory Dickory Dock.
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• Onomatopoeia the use of words to imitate the
  sounds they describe
• crack or whir
• Gr-r-rthere go, my hearts abhorrence!

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Rhyme when the ending vowel and consonant
sounds are the same in two or more words.

• End rhyme words rhyming at the end of poetic
  lines
• It's enough to make me weep... And all
  because of that little creep
• Internal rhyme one or both rhyming words occur
  in the middle of a line
• For the moon never beams without bringing me
  dreams

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Scan these lines

• Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert FrostNature's
  first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her
  early leaf's a flowerBut only so an hour.Then
  leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So
  dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.

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Identify the sound devices

• Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert
  Frost
• Whose woods these are I think I know.
  (consonance )
• His house is in the village thoughHe will not
  see me stopping here (assonance)To watch his
  woods fill up with snow. (alliteration)My little
  horse must think it queerTo stop without a
  farmhouse near (assonance)Between the woods and
  frozen lake (consonance) The darkest evening of
  the year.He gives his harness bells a shake To
  ask if there is some mistake. (consonance)The
  only other sound's the sweep (alliteration)Of
  easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely,
  dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And
  miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go
  before I sleep.

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• Free Verse Assignment
• write a paragraph entitled Who Am I
• break the paragraph into lines
• revise the lines until they look, feel, and sound
  right to you
• turn in your poem