Assonance

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Assonance

• Sound

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Personification
Symbol
Imagery
Aural imagery (Sound Devices) Alliteration Assonan
ce Onomatopoeia Rhyme
metaphor
Simile
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• Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel
  sounds within neighboring wordssounds, not
  letters
• Cat and hat, not cat and father

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• Fleet feet sweep by sleeping streets
• Beans Means Heinz
• He gave a nod to the officer with a pocket

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• Fleet feet sweep by sleeping streets
• Beans Means Heinz
• He gave a nod to the officer with a pocket

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LOSE YOURSELF
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• His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are
  heavyThere's vomit on his sweater already, mom's
  spaghettiHe's nervous, but on the surface he
  looks calm and readyTo drop bombs, but he keeps
  on forgettinWhat he wrote down, the whole crowd
  goes so loudHe opens his mouth, but the words
  won't come outHe's choking, how everybody's
  joking nowThe clock's run out, time's up over,
  bloah!Snap back to reality, Oh there goes
  gravityOh, there goes Rabbit, he chokedHe's so
  mad, but he won't give up that
• Easy, noHe won't have it , he knows his whole
  back's to these ropesIt don't matter, he's
  dopeHe knows that, but he's brokeHe's so
  stagnant that he knowsWhen he goes back to his
  mobile home, that's when it'sBack to the lab
  again yoThis whole rhapsodyHe better go capture
  this moment and hope it don't pass him

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• His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are
  heavyThere's vomit on his sweater already, mom's
  spaghettiHe's nervous, but on the surface he
  looks calm and readyTo drop bombs, but he keeps
  on forgettinWhat he wrote down, the whole crowd
  goes so loudHe opens his mouth, but the words
  won't come outHe's choking, how everybody's
  joking nowThe clock's run out, time's up over,
  bloah!Snap back to reality, Oh there goes
  gravityOh, there goes Rabbit, he chokedHe's so
  mad, but he won't give up that
• Easy, noHe won't have it , he knows his whole
  back's to these ropesIt don't matter, he's
  dopeHe knows that, but he's brokeHe's so
  stagnant that he knowsWhen he goes back to his
  mobile home, that's when it'sBack to the lab
  again yoThis whole rhapsodyHe better go capture
  this moment and hope it don't pass him

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• The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent
  and ragged, their legs drying in knots.
• -Annie Dillard

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• The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent
  and ragged, their legs drying in knots.
• -Annie Dillard

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• Old age should burn and wave at closing of day
• Rage, rage against the dying of the light
• Do not go gentle into that good night
• -Dylan Thomas

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• Old age should burn and wave at closing of day
• Rage, rage against the dying of the light
• Do not go gentle into that good night
• -Dylan Thomas

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• Those images that yet
• Fresh images beget
• That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormenting sea.
• Byzanthium
• -W. B. Yeats

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• Those images that yet
• Fresh images beget
• That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormenting sea.
• Byzanthium
• - W. B. Yeats

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• Full fathom five thy father lies
• William Shakespeare

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• How now brown cow
• Do you like blue
• Hear the mellow wedding bells

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Simile
Personification
Imagery
Aural Imagery (Sound) Alliteration Assonance Onoma
topoeia Rhyme
metaphor
Symbol
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• Alliteration- the repetition of initial consonant
  sounds
• Remember, not similar letters, similar sounds
• Example not pig and phone
• but dirty dog

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Alliteration

• While I nodded, nearly, napping, suddenly there
  came a tapping.
• The Raven Edgar Allan Poe

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• Safe and sound
• Its now or never
• The sweet smell of success
• Swing low sweet chariot

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• Safe and sound
• Its now or never
• The sweet smell of success
• Swing low sweet chariot

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• The tutor who tutored a flute
• Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
• Said the two to their tutor,
• Is it harder to toot or
• To tutor two tooters to toot?

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Wise Words Ward Off Wrath

• Wise words ward off wrath, whilst foolish words
  fuel the fires of feud.
• Pleasant words are persuasive and pave the path
  for peace
• Harsh words hurt and harbor hatred.
• Soft words sow soothing seeds.
• Unkind words kindle the fires of rage.
• Vulgar comments violate and vilify.
• Gossip strips and tears friendships apart.
• Insulting words instigate insurrection and
  infighting.
• Nagging negates, complicates and conflagrates
• Zip your mouth when your mind is not in a Good
  gear.

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• Wise words ward off wrath, whilst foolish words
  fuel the fires of feud.
• Pleasant words are persuasive and pave the path
  for peace
• Harsh words hurt and harbor hatred.
• Soft words sow soothing seeds.
• Unkind words kindle the fires of rage.
• Vulgar comments violate and vilify.
• Gossip strips and tears friendships apart.
• Insulting words instigate insurrection and
  infighting.
• Nagging negates, complicates and conflagrates
• Zip your mouth when your mind is not in a Good
  gear.

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Helplessly Hoping

• by Stephen Stills, Gold HillHelplessly
  hopingHer harlequin hovers nearbyAwaiting a
  wordGasping at glimpsesOf gentle true spiritHe
  runs, wishing he could flyOnly to trip at the
  sound of good-byeWordlessly watchingHe waits
  by the windowAnd wonders At the empty place
  insideHeartlessly helping himself to her bad
  dreamsHe worriesDid he hear a good-bye? Or even
  hello?They are one personThey are two
  aloneThey are three togetherThey are for each
  otherStand by the stairwayYou'll see
  somethingCertain to tell you confusion has its
  costLove isn't lyingIt's loose in a lady who
  lingersSaying she is lostAnd choking on hello

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• Helplessly hopingHer harlequin hovers
  nearbyAwaiting a wordGasping at glimpsesOf
  gentle true spiritHe runs, wishing he could
  flyOnly to trip at the sound of
  good-byeWordlessly watchingHe waits by the
  windowAnd wonders At the empty place
  insideHeartlessly helping himself to her bad
  dreamsHe worriesDid he hear a good-bye? Or even
  hello?They are one personThey are two
  aloneThey are three togetherThey are for each
  otherStand by the stairwayYou'll see
  somethingCertain to tell you confusion has its
  costLove isn't lyingIt's loose in a lady who
  lingersSaying she is lostAnd choking on hello

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• 9.
• I strode down by the sea shore
• The soft sensuous wind smothered my face.
• The ravaging waves rushed to my feet
• The oceans oysters refused to open their mouth.
• In the distance I detect a dolphin
• It jumped with joy then jetted away.
• Boats bobbed on the beautiful sea
• Towels tainted the beachs territory.
• Chairs crowded the coast line
• People polluted the Pacifics ocean.
• But soon, the sun slid into a sunset,
• Everyone retreated to the road and retrieved
  their cars
• The day at the beach has ended.

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Your turn
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Poem 9

• Write a poem that uses alliteration or assonance.
• Must be between10-12 lines.
• Remember you can use alliteration and assonance
  to achieve a certain lyrical quality.
• --Soft
• --Sensuous
• --Comical

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• Consonance- repetition of non-initial consonant
  sounds (shall and will)
• Sometimes called half-rhyme focus on final
  consonant sounds preceded by different vowel
  sounds

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• The beast climbed fast to the crest

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• The beast climbed fast to the crest

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• Sweet sweat

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• Sweet sweat

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• Belike for want of rain, which I
• could well beteem them from
• the tempest of my eyes.

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• And then the whole quire hold
• their hips and loffe, and waxen in
• their mirth, and neeze, and swear a
• merrier hour was never wasted
• there.

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• And then the whole quire hold
• their hips and loffe, and waxen in
• their mirth, and neeze, and swear a
• merrier hour was never wasted
• there.

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Poetry portfolio 10

• Ten Lovely Words
• Write a list of ten of your favorite words.
  Include words you like because of their meaning
  and words you like because of their sound.
• Use all of these words in a poem.