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Poetic Devices. The Sounds of Poetry. Onomatopoeia. Definition: When a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound. Purpose: Used to create a vivid effect of sound. Examples Buzz Fizz Woof Hiss Clink Boom Beep Vroom Zip. Repetition. Definition: Repeating a word or words.
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PoeticDevices The Sounds of Poetry
Onomatopoeia Definition: When a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound. Purpose: Used to create a vivid effect of sound. Examples Buzz Fizz Woof Hiss Clink Boom Beep Vroom Zip
Repetition Definition: Repeating a word or words. Purpose: Used for effect. Example When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day.
Rhythm Definition: When words are arranged in such a way that they make a pattern or beat. Purpose: Creates a pattern and serves as the backdrop for ideas and imagery. Example There once was a girl from Chicago Who dyed her hair pink in the bathtub I own a solace shut within my heart, A garden full of many a quaint delight Hint: hum the words instead of saying them.
Rhyme Definition: When words have the same end sound. Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines. Purpose: Used to create a pattern/give a poem structure and a sense of musicality. Examples Where Fair Air Bear Glare
Alliteration Definition: When the first sounds in words repeat. Purpose: Used for emphasis. Example Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper. Slim-pinioned swallows sweep and pass
Consonance Definition: When consonants repeat in the middle or end of words.Creates a near rhyme sound. Purpose: Used to enhance musical effect and to establish a mood. Examples Fixed in onyx A pillar of valor The calm lamb Fish in a mesh net
Assonance Definition: When vowel sounds repeat within words that are close together. Purpose: Used to enhance musical effect and to establish a mood. Examples • You took the blue shoes last Tuesday (long vowel sound) • Men sell the wedding bells (short vowel sound)
Practice Quiz I’ll put some lines of poetry on the board. Write down which techniques are used: A. Alliteration D. Consonance B. Assonance E. Rhythm C. Rhyme F. Onomatopoeia. Refer to the underlined portions when answering.
1 Oh! To be a wave Splintering on the sand, Drawing back, but leaving Lingeringly the land.
2 Drip--hiss--drip--hiss– fall the raindrops on the oaken log which burns, and steams, and smokes the ceiling beams. Drip--hiss--the rain never stops.
3 I passed through the gates of the city, The streets were strange and still,Through the doors of the open churches The organs were moaning shrill.
4 He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweepOf 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
5 How they clang, and clash, and roar!
6 By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells
Answers 1. Rhythm, rhyme, consonance, alliteration. 2. Onomatopoeia, consonance, repetition, rhyme • Rhythm, rhyme, alliteration • Rhyme, repetition, alliteration • Onomatopoeia, alliteration • Onomatopoeia, rhyme, alliteration, consonance